"qualitative basis" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means the underlying foundation or reasoning based on the quality or characteristics of something. Example: The company's decision to launch a new product was based on a qualitative basis, as market research showed a high demand for eco-friendly and sustainable products.
But it's very difficult to make it all work on a qualitative basis.
This was the qualitative basis for the quantitative indicator development.
Assessments have previously been on a qualitative basis.
"It is not that easy," says the head of a consulting firm that rates AMCs on a qualitative basis.
The results presented here offer a qualitative basis for the development of membranes with a particulate morphology.
The qualitative basis for the case studies and the analysis models are summarized in part I of this paper.
The results show that the developed model creates a qualitative and quantitative basis for sustainability assessment of MHPs, allowing easiness for comparison of micro hydro projects, providing an effective decision-making support tool in rural electrification and development sector.
A total of 681 undergraduate students as well as 168 subject-specific instructors and 6 EFL instructors participated in the study, which was designed on a qualitative-quantitative survey basis using interviews and questionnaires.
Some items were removed solely on the basis of qualitative data when 3 or more qualitative factors were identified as problematic (for example: not understood in the cognitive interview, too many missing values and not sufficiently related to HRQoL).
"That's what we need in the N.B.A. It's not that most of the refs don't try to do the best job possible -- it's just that they'll never eliminate human error until they approach it on a qualitative rather than quantitative basis".
What Greece really needs is to manage its public sector "on a qualitative, not a quantitative basis", said Theodore Pelagidis, an economics professor at the University of Piraeus who compiled the public-private research.
