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• Analysis


  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


  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
• Ways of looking for patterns in qualitative data


  • Frequencies
  • Magnitude
  • Structure
  • Processes
  • Causes
  • Consequences
• Data processing


  Any operation done on the data, may be processed using computer programs and presented in textual, tabular, or graphical formats
• Data presentation


  The process of arranging data into logical, sequential, and meaningful manner to make them acceptable for analysis and interpretation
• Ways to present qualitative data

  • Textual presentation
  • Hierarchical tree diagrams
  • Ideas in figures
  • Maps
  • Tabular presentation
  • Graphical presentation
• Table


  Systematic arrangement of related data in which a row is designated to each group of numerical data and a column for each subgroup
• Types of tables


  • Demographic table
  • Comparison table
• Pie chart


  Represented by a slice of pie, in which the areas of these slices should be proportional to the percentage of responses, effective for showing the relative frequencies of a small number of categories
• Bar graph


  Frequencies of different categories are displayed, frequencies are shown on the y-axis and the category on the x-axis