Enrichment of data. There are situations when you collect data with one method but for its supplementation
or enrichment you need another set of data. The second set of data primarily looks at
the issues from a different perspective. This triangulation enriches the information and enhances the
accuracy of the findings and is only possible when a mixed/multiple methods approach is used in
undertaking a study. Let us take another example (Figure 1.5), in which the author was involved, that
used non-participant observation as a method of data collection but with the recording done, on the
spot, in two different formats (descriptive and categorical). Though the data was collected by one
method, two different methods of observation recording were employed. Some of the subsequent
steps – the analysis and communication of the findings – were treated in two different ways appropriate
to the manner in which the data was collected. This enrichment of data was possible only
because of the use of mixed methods in recording and subsequent steps that followed.