ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors describe the some main research questions attempted in the empirical section of the study, and relate to them the design of the data collection. A great variety of experimental designs can be created from the basic repertoire by combining their features in various ways. Even for the comparison of the costs and effectiveness of community care and conventional provision for individual clients, it is likely that quasi-experimental area design would be superior to a random allocation of clients from the same area if the context is community care based on social service teams. The quasi-experimental design determined the framework for the collection of data. The cost-effectiveness question dominated a discussion of the evaluation design in the project's protocol, the question is focused on the conceptual domains labelled by the quotation marks in the question, and how the concepts are connected.
