In this type of coding the researchers read through your qualitative data (such as transcripts from interviews) and analytically break it up into discrete, bite sized pieces of data
A more advanced method that consists of several stages such as familiarization, identifying a thematic framework, coding, charting, mapping and interpretation
This is one of the most important steps in quantitative data preparation. It refers to findIing out, as far as possible, whether the data collection was done as per the pre-set standards and without any bias