19 transcripts from semi-structured interviews and focus groups conducted at Marine Corps Base Quantico in 2012. The data was collected by Kerry Fosher for a project assessing the impact and return on investment of placing Staff Noncommissioned Officers with advanced degrees in select organizations.
Use Cases
- Analyze qualitative themes on organizational mission accomplishment based on interview transcripts.
- Study the perceived return on investment of advanced education for military personnel based on focus group discussions.
- Examine applied social science research outcomes using the included public domain example as a data source.
Strengths
- Contains 19 interview and focus group transcripts providing qualitative depth.
- Includes a project overview and an example applied research outcome for context.
Limitations
- Row count and column-level documentation are absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias inherent to a single base and year.
Provenance
- Source
- Kerry Fosher via QDR Harvested Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Semi-structured interviews and focus groups
- Time Range
- 2012
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-04 07:10:51; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia