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The following papers may further help:

• Brannen, J. (2005) Mixing Methods: The Entry of Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches into the Research Process, International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 8, 3, pp. 173-184.
• Bryman, A. (2006) Integrating quantitative and qualitative research: how is it done?, Qualitative Research, 6, 1, pp. 97-113.
• Bryman, A. (2007) Barriers to Integrating Quantitative and Qualitative Research, Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 1, 1, pp. 8-22.
• Fetters, M. D., Curry, L. A. and Creswell, J. W. (2013) Achieving integration in mixed methods designs - principles and practices, Health services research, 48, Pt. 2, pp. 2134-2156.
• Johnstone, P. L. (2004) Mixed Methods, Mixed Methodology Health Services Research in Practice, Qualitative Health Research, 14, 2, pp. 259-271.
• Steckler, A., McLeroy, K. R., Goodman, R. M., Bird, S. T. and McCormick, L. (1992) Toward integrating qualitative and quantitative methods: an introduction, Health Education Quarterly, 19, 1, pp. 1-8.

Behailu - the attached mixed methods chapter (for health professionals) may assist.

The best account of the complex interplay of history and development that I know of is

Experiments in Knowing: Gender and Method in the Social Sciences Paperback – 2 Mar 2000

by Ann Oakley (Author) Lot of health stuff in there.

I do not want to offend but I find a lot of the mixed methods stuff disappointing; it may be brilliant on the qual side but the quant is often very out of date recipes that do not get at the fundamentals. For me the quant is the fourth R, that is Reasoning under uncertainty.

You get some of my views here

Chapter The practice of quantitative methods

For a treatment of mixed methods by someone who does understand quant , see

Multi-Method Social Science : combining Qualitative and Quantitative Tools https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/multimethod-social-science/286C2742878FBCC6225E2F10D6095A0C

Full disclosure, I have not read what has been suggested by others, I will have a look.

Unfortunately, there is no advantage, so choosing the method is due to the nature of the study

But the quantitative method has a historical precedence

And every style has someone to defend it and give it preference

Any method has its pros and cons

Taher Alkhalaf What is the evidence that quantitative comes first?

Kelvyn Jones

I hope to present some points and indicators, because this needs a deep study and investigation, and the matter has not been resolved despite its discussion by senior researchers, and I am still a researcher.

(The answer to your legitimate question)

Quantitative research aims to measure the phenomenon and not discover it - measure the effect..the degree of interaction..relation ..

The theory is pre-experiment and this is why the quantitative method is used with precedence while the qualitative method is the one that generates the theory that will grow and develop and can be quantified after a period

The quantitative research that was based on Aristotle's approach to the study of the phenomenon, which is formal logic.

Quantitative research is the truth in general, it is a general law and constitutes general knowledge. In this way, Greek thought spread as general facts that all people benefit from and were essentially like other civilizations to reach the relative truth of course.

The qualitative method was present but it is not a science but rather specific cases. Some researchers extract from history indications of its existence, but it was not a recognized science or the method used in its time. It was developed in the nineteenth century (Source: Robert C. Bogdan, Sari Knopp, 1982) .. As societies evolved to delve deeper into studying phenomena, especially social ones ... One of the disadvantages of this method is that it relied on the quantitative approach in its tools and sometimes the measures of nature do not fit with Standards of humanities, social and economic sciences and markets

Thank you for your question. I think the book by JW Creswell and JD Creswell is useful to you. Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches Fifth Edition.