Chapter 4

• Analysis 


  The meticulously study of research variables and how they are related to each other within the given research problem
• Research Data 


  Factual information used to analyze research variables
• 3 common ways to analyze qualitative data

  • Thematic
  • Narrative
  • Content
• Thematic Analysis 


  Type of analysis in which the researchers looks across all the data to identify some recurring issues.
• Steps in thematic analysis

  • Read and annotate
  • identify themes
  • Develop a coding scheme
  • Code the data
• Ordinary Themes 


  expected to find
• Unforeseen themes 


  not expected to finds
• hard to classify themes 


  overlapping with one another or several themes
• major and minor themes 


  represents as major and secondary ideas in the database
• themes must be enumerated
• notes be made as abstract as possible
• Narrative Analysis 


  looks narratively in each cases and reveals the subject and their environment, and processes documents and observations
• what are utilized in narrative analysis

  documents and observations
• content analysis 


  Focuses on human behavior directly
• often used analysis in ethnography and historical research

  content analysis
• Frequencies 


  how often a situation occured
• Magnitude 


  provides the level of situation
• structure


  gives information about types and relationships that exists in the given situation
• processes


  order and variation
• causes 


  how common and how often
• consequences 


  Effects, both in short term and long-term periods
• Data processing 


  Any operation done on the data and presented in textual, tabular, or graphical formats.
• Data Presentation 


  the process of arranging data in logical, sequential, and meaningful manner
• Textual Presentation 


  statements with numerals or numbers to describe data
• examples of textual presentation

  • tree diagrams
  • ideas in figures
  • maps
• Tabular Presentation 


  suggested to present relationships of a given set of numerical information
• table

  a systematic arrangement of related data with the purpose of facilitating the analysis and interpretations
• what numbers are used in tables

  Hindu-Arabic numbers
• Demographic table


  Provides information abour personal or demographic information
• comparison table

  compares groups under one theme.
• Graphical Presentation 


  Uses graph that may represent individual categories and descriptive statistics
• Pie chart 


  categories are represented by a pie
• the areas of the slice should be proportional to what 


  percentage of responses in a given category
• It is effective for showing the relative frequencies of a small number of categories

  Pie chart
• frequencies of different categories are displayed

  Bar Graph