Using Mixed Methods to Assess Social Capital in Low Income Countries: A Practical Guide

Veronica Nyhan Jones and Michael Woolcock

Global Development Institute Working Paper Series from GDI, The University of Manchester

Abstract: We provide an overview of some practical guidelines for using both qualitative and quantitative methods to assess social capital in low income countries. Drawing on two longer and more detailed source documents, we use a six-dimension conceptual framework to show how a more complete picture of the nature and extent of social relations in poor communities can be discerned. Far from being the ‘final word’ on social capital assessment, these guidelines serve rather to distil lessons from research conducted thus far at the World Bank (and elsewhere), and provide a broad platform on which subsequent research can draw and, in turn, contribute. It is stressed that social capital’s salience and manifestations, across all dimensions, is often highly context dependent, and that all researchers need to do the hard work of adapting these guidelines to best suit the political, cultural and historical realities of the communities in which they are engaged.

Date: 2007
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