Weaving understanding: use of secondary data to generate new understandings about HIV risk with women in Papua New Guinea

Until recently, researchers have been reticent to use secondary data to generate grounded theory. Secondary data (also known as retrospective data) is data collected by other researchers and used in a separate research project to understand the phenomena under question. This presentation outlines the use of a secondary data set to inform the development of a grounded theory. Collected by researchers in a multi-site study in Papua New Guinea...