young people’s experiences of homelessness

If you wanted to examine young people’s experiences of homelessness, would you use qualitative methods, quantitative methods or a mixed methods approach? Explain you answer.

Order Description
This assessment provides you with the skills to analyse and understand what research methods suit a particular research question and why. This is a short paper written in essay format. Drawing on the essential readings from the course and additional research literature sourced from below mentioned resources l you need to argue whether qualitative, or quantitative, or a mixed methods approach is the most appropriate to investigate young people’s experiences of homelessness.

GUIDELINES
Due to the short length please do not provide a formal introduction. The introduction to this paper is only the Essay Question and the body of the paper addresses the Essay Question.
Briefly define homelessness based on scholarly sources
Formulate and demonstrate your conceptual understanding of qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods approaches.
Argue which approach is most appropriate for the research question and target sample.
The conclusion to the paper should be brief.
The paper must utilise scholarly literature, cited according to the Harvard Author-Date Referencing System.
The essay should be in conext of Australia
Must utilise this source

Neuman, WL 2011, Social research methods: qualitative and quantitative approaches, 7th edn, Pearson, Boston.
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