The project Conhecer Montanha: an experiment of quali and quanti integration approach for socioeconomic and geospatial data mapping

Abstract

The project Conhecer Montanha is the result from a methodology design able to join quality approach to quantity based approach in order to provide usable database for policies and pedagogical management at Instituto Federal do Espírito Santo, in Montanha town. The process of information acquisition for drawing up the database was a challenge since it is complex and comprehensive, so that, it is imperative the quality and quantity aspects be integrated and systemized. The experience in building the methodology for this specific deal is reported in this paper by means of the three main used methods detailing: acquiring and surveying figures and spatial data from official sources; interviews conducted by a semi-structured guide; organizing focus groups methodology for collecting speech answers. As soon as the required data were gathered, the analysis was made while creating categories to highlight the correlations between the population speech and official information.