Qualitative interviews at scale: A new method with an application to aspirations

Qualitative interviews at scale: A new method with an application to aspirations

We develop a new method to analyse open-ended qualitative interviews with large samples, and apply it to interviews with Rohingya refugees and Bangladeshi hosts on parent’s aspirations for children, revealing dimensions of aspiration that standard surveys systematically miss. For instance, despite lower formal education, Rohingya refugees exhibit higher navigational capacity than host communities, a strength that becomes visible only through ope…