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summary tables givlng details of the issues and methods are presented in Tables 6.5A
and 0.
6.3.1 DescrlpUon of methods
fa] Ethnooraphic methods
The qualitative tools appl~ed were focus group discusstons, in-depth intemews, key
Informant Intemew, case stud~es and nonpart~upant obsewat~on In-depth lnlemem
and focus group dlscuss~ons were held In a manner slmllar to that described In the
chaDter on health
(I) Focus group d~scuss~ons and Indepth interviews
The groups selected for d~scuss~on were a group of 8 men, a group of 8 women (both
groups compnsed marned people between 25 and 50 years w~th ch~ldren In school), a
group of 7 school cti~ldren studying In m~ddle and h~gh school and a group of 7 school
teachers
Bes~des dlscuss~on w~lh these four groups. In-depth Interviews were held
w~lh 6 women all of whom Iiad school golng chlldren Attempts to lntemew men were
unsuccessful as they felt that women knew better about these Issues than them
il) Case studies
Case studies are conducted to collect comprehensive, systemat~c and In-depth
Information about cases of interest (Hudelson.1994). Case studies were also used as a
method to obtain data on causes of dropout.