The meticulous study of research variables to learn about their constituent parts & how they are related to each other within the given research problem
Research data
Factual info. used to analyze research variables and produce relevant research results
Common ways to analyze qualitative data
Thematic analysis
Narrative analysis
Content analysis
Thematic analysis
1. Read and annotate transcripts
2. Identify themes
3. Develop a coding scheme
4. Code the data
Themes in thematic analysis
Ordinary themes
Unforeseen themes
Hard to classify themes
Major and minor themes
Narrative analysis
The researchers look narratively within each case, focusing on how stories are made rather than on the outcome of the narrative
Content analysis
Enables the researcher to focus on human behavior indirectly
