Our two-phase sampling strategy will begin with a purposeful sampling frame across provinces and territories, rural and urban settings, gender, age (15–17, 19–22, and 23–25) and ethnicity. As data collection progresses, we will engage in additional theoretical sampling to confirm/disconfirm results, fill in data gaps, and refine our evolving theory.
Each participant will be offered an honorarium of $50 for their participation in an interview. We will collect data until we reach saturation by informational redundancy (new data repeats previous data) and have sufficient data to explain the phenomenon.57 (link) To ensure we have a diverse, information-rich sample, we will seek to saturate each subgroup in our purposeful sampling framework: rural and urban youth; those in each province and territory; immigrant, refugee and newcomer youth; disabled youth; Black, Indigenous and People of Colour; Two-Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Asexual, Intersex youth. Based on analogous studies35 58 (link) we will likely conduct interviews with 10–15 youth per group, acknowledging that participants will have intersecting identities. We predict our sample of youth will thus be upwards of 100 total participants.
Each participant will be offered an honorarium of $50 for their participation in an interview. We will collect data until we reach saturation by informational redundancy (new data repeats previous data) and have sufficient data to explain the phenomenon.57 (link) To ensure we have a diverse, information-rich sample, we will seek to saturate each subgroup in our purposeful sampling framework: rural and urban youth; those in each province and territory; immigrant, refugee and newcomer youth; disabled youth; Black, Indigenous and People of Colour; Two-Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Asexual, Intersex youth. Based on analogous studies35 58 (link) we will likely conduct interviews with 10–15 youth per group, acknowledging that participants will have intersecting identities. We predict our sample of youth will thus be upwards of 100 total participants.
