The next section shows how political ethnography revealed biases in the newspaper data (confirmation) and the extent to which these biases can be corrected by complementary data; initiation will be covered in the subsequent section.
These examples show the value of political ethnography in confirming and complementing newspaper data, underscoring the importance of mixed data collection.
The picture offered in this television and newspaper data of LMICs themselves was similarly distorted: no longer simply passive recipients of external financial and technical assistance these nations were now sources of benefit to Australians, in the form of low-cost, convenient and even enjoyable combinations of health-care and travel.
The study carried out literature surveys on the overall circumstances throughout Korean society, culture, and politics in those days and the changing face of women's life right after the Korean War in the 1950s through books, newspaper data, and research data.
Newspaper data are popular in Comparative Migration Studies as they allow diachronic and cross-national comparison and are relatively easy and inexpensive to acquire.
If such a pilot study shows that the research aims are compatible with newspaper data, political ethnography can be employed in two complementary steps.
First, ethnographic case studies can be used to validate newspaper data to ascertain whether there are biases in the data or not.
Last weekend, Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which funded the trial, announced in newspaper interviews that the data analyzed so far--from 113 of the trial's 452 subjects--show the vaccine eliciting protective antibodies.
Researchers thus need more information than what is generally presented in newspaper articles to validate their data.
A few days later, the Norwegian Data Inspectorate said in newspapers that all data already collected from participants in MIDIA had to be thrown away.
