A researcher wants to understand why people are willing to handle snakes as a part or their church activities in several rural churches in Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia. She is a qualitative researcher, and she attends the church to observe and conduct interviews many of the church members. While she is there, "in the field," she hands out a short quantitative instrument that measures several demographic indicators and will provide frequencies and percentages on the demographic characteristics. Which design is this?
A) Primary status sequential design
B) Equal-status sequential design
C) Primary status concurrent design
D) Equal-status concurrent design

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The researcher is using a concurrent design because she is collecting both qualitative and quantitative data at the same time while in the field. The qualitative data is primary, as it involves observation and interviews, while the quantitative data is secondary, collected through a short instrument.

A Researcher Wants to Understand Why People Are Willing to Handle