Data Analysis: A Qualitative Approach

CHAPTER THREE

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

3.1 Introduction

This chapter describes how the study was designed and carried out. It explains the sampling methods used procedure for data collection, which has been adopted and the tool used in data analysis to come up with the conclusions and recommendations. This chapter first describes the research design and area of study. It also describes the methodology adopted in the study together with the instruments and procedures used in collecting data, targeted population, sample size, sampling techniques, method of data collection and data analysis.

3.2 Research Design

The research study will be of qualitative and a qualitative approach in attempting to bring together the different foreign policy achievements with the integration settings by looking how the foreign policy coordination or international relation has fared in enhancing EAC progression since the launching of EAC International Policy Coordination Protocol. The data source instruments for primary data will include EAC policy documents, EAC staff interviews, reports and national and international academic journals. The data from

An unstructured interview permits researchers to center the interviewee’s response on a particular subject of interest, and can tolerate interviewees the chances to test out his or her preliminary understanding, while still allowing for ample opportunity for new ways of seeing and understanding. Likewise, the secondary data applied originate from different sources, including multilateral institutions, publications by the bureau of statistics of countries, international non-governmental organizations and research organization’s foundations. They all form secondary data, obtainable in the public domain, and most will be accessed through the