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Quantitative research is a strategy which involves the collection of numerical data, a


deductive view of the relationship between theory and research, a preference for a
natural science approach (and for positivism in particular), and an objectivist
conception of social reality.

It is important to note that quantitative research thus means more than the
quantification of aspects of social life, it also has a distinctive epistemological and
ontological position which distinguishes it from more qualitative research.

An ideal-typical outline of the stages of quantitative research:

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