Analysing Qualitative Data

Table of Contents

1. Analysing Qualitative Data
2. Data Management
3. Data management
4. Data management
5. Data management
6. Identifying initial themes
7. Data coding
8. Answer
9. Identifying initial concepts
10. Developing descriptions of the data
11. Developing descriptions of the data
12. Building your conclusions
13. In summary

Data management

One of the earliest analysis operations you need to carry out in the interest of making data manageable (and reducing it to a volume you can work with) is to count.

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Which of the following might you count a) Proportion of people interviewed who expressed a particular view b) Number of times a person speaks in a focus group c) Proportion of people who mention a particular aspect of the clinic in a focus group d) Number of times people became upset during the interview e) Number of miles people travelled to the focus group a) Very important a) This is very importantb) It is important to be sure everyone gets a chance to speak, but counting the number of times a person speaks will not help us answer the evaluation questionsb) It is important that everyone gets a chance to speak, but counting the times a person speaks will not help us answer the evaluation questionsc) This is importantc) This is importantd) While it is important to note if it's something related to the clinic that people felt strongly about, in itself the number of times people become upset is not relevant to our evaluation questionsd) While it is important to note if it's something related to the clinic that people felt strongly about, in itself the number of times people become upset is not relevant to our evaluation questions.e) This is something to be thought about before the focus group, but not something relevant to our analysis e) This is something to be thought about before the focus group, when it's being arranged, not something relevant to our analysis