0 relating to how good or bad something is:
Is there any qualitative difference between these two DVD players?
1 relating to what something or someone is like:
There has been a qualitative change in the relationship between the public and the government.
2 relating to the quality of an experience or situation rather than to facts that can be measured:
There’s a qualitative difference between seeing a live performance in a theater and watching a movie.
3 based on information that cannot be easily measured, such as people's opinions and feelings, rather than on information that can be shown in numbers:
The collection of qualitative data often yields a huge pile of raw material.
It may be necessary to use a more varied form of assessment, i.e. one that generates both qualitative and quantitative information.
4 relating to the qualities of something rather than its quantity:
Involving consumers in assessing service quality : benefits of using a qualitative approach.
Assessing beliefs about the needs of senior citizens using the focus group interview : a qualitative approach.
Examples are given from each category, drawing on qualitative data.
The studies use a nice mix of qualitative and quantitative measures, although they lack representative samples.
One of the particular strengths of qualitative research is its capacity to generate unexpected findings.
Ethnographic theories are situated inbetween qualitative categories and narrative satisfaction.
Qualitative representation and reasoning about shapes and spatial relationships.
In observational research in the general population, however, a continuum approach may be more useful than use of a qualitative cut-off point.
