You are right MAdha. This saturation can also be applied when determining your participants - you ask the same question and when you reach the point where everyone's responses are the same, you can stop at that number of people.

well...let's just open the discussion here. Tq. I noticed the last input was March 2018 so let's try to find time to add in constructive thoughts.

I think this is a good platform for discussion on qualitative methodology as there's still confusion about it and how to go about doing it. I have always found difficulty in explaining to my Masters or PhD students on the difference between a phenomenology and ethnography study in terms of data collection and presentation. My experience examining a phenomenology thesis was not easy due to this. My dissertation was ethnographic in nature. Perhaps someone who did/is doing a phenomenology study could enlighten us.

sorry...am one year late in my response. I just joined as a member so I am browsing through to see what's on QRAM's site. Agree with both masyuk & tsy. My simple thinking ... saturation is a concept where a situation reaches a point where everything is the same, or consistent so therefore there is no need to go any further. Meaning, you can apply this concept in any situation as such...just to add tsf...even in determining the number of samples/participants needed.