Following the previous post, I am still curious about the combination of qualitative and quantitative methods. Would you mind sharing more examples? For example, what is the most common combination of methods?

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One of the most common combinations of methods involves using qualitative research in the initial stages of a large-N research project. Qualitative investigation helps researchers get a better handle on which data to collect and how best to collect it (e.g., in a subsequent survey). Many hypotheses can be eliminated quickly based on qualitative investigation, as can many ways of pursuing specific kinds of evidence. In this combination of methods, the qualitative phase can be understood as a relatively inexpensive prologue to an upcoming large-N investigation, an informal pretest that refines both hypotheses and measures. Alternatively, qualitative investigation can be used as an explicit source of hypotheses, to be subsequently tested using large-N methods.