Narrative analysis of paradata from the Poverty in the UK survey: a worked example

This paper describes how a narrative analysis of survey paradata from Peter Townsend’s ground breaking Poverty in the UK: A Survey of Household Resources and Standards of Living 1967-69 (PinUK) enabled us to address the following issues: • How the story of one household emerges from paradata in the PinUK survey. • How the story of the research relationship emerges through paradata. • How paradata reveal research practices.