3Is

• Narrative analysis


  Method used to analyze content from various sources, such as interviews of respondents, observations from the field, or surveys
• Selective coding


  A type of coding where you connect all your categories together around one core category
• Axial coding


  In this type of coding you read over the codes and their underlying data to find how they can be grouped and abstracted into categories
• Percentage


  Used to express how a value or group of respondents within the data relates to a larger group of respondents
• Fraud


  One of the four step process of qualitative data validation that infer whether each respondent was actually interviewed or not
• Summary of findings


  This section serves as a brief restatement of the major findings of the study
• Data coding


  One of the most important steps in quantitative data preparation that refers to grouping and assigning values to responses from the survey
• Open coding


  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
• Framework analysis


  A more advanced method that consists of several stages such as familiarization, identifying a thematic framework, coding, charting, mapping and interpretation
• Data validation


  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
• Grounded theory


  This refers to using qualitative data to explain why a certain phenomenon happened
• Axial coding


  A type of coding where the researchers find connections and relationships between code
• Content analysis


  It is used to analyze documented information in the form of texts, media, or even physical items
• Media


  This refers to the midpoint of a set of numerical values
• Range


  This refers to the highest and lowest value in a set of values
• Conclusion


  It contains insights drawn from the findings of each problem. These insights answer the questions presented at the beginning of the research paper
• Recommendations


  Based on the findings and conclusions of the study, these serve as practical suggestions for future research in similar fields
• Procedure


  One of the four step process of qualitative data validation that check whether the data collection procedure was duly followed
• Mean


  This refers to the numerical average of a set of values