Steps in Qualitative Data Analysis Overview
Qualitative data analysis involves documenting the data collection process, coding data, and examining relationships to understand how concepts influence each other. Field notes, maps, interview transcriptions, and observation notes are essential tools for this analysis. Researchers move from simple descriptions to identifying patterns and explanations through analyzing relationships in the data.
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Steps in Qualitative Data Analysis 1. Documentation of the data and the process of data collection 2. Coding data 3. Examining relationships in the data to show how one concept may influence another
Documentation The data for a qualitative study most often are notes jotted down in the field or during an interview from which the original comments, observations, and feelings are reconstructed or text transcribed from audiotapes.
Analysis and Theory Examining relationships is the centerpiece of the analytic process, because it allows the researcher to move from simple description of the people and settings to explanations of why things happened as they did with those people in that setting.
Sample Interview Transcription Researcher: Do you see yourself as a leader? Yes. R: Why? Because I can do the things that I just talked to you about. R: (Laughs) ok. Um, I m gonna jump around just a little bit. So you said that um if you would have done things differently, you would have been a full-timer. So WHY is it that you re not pursuing a full-time position now? You know how old I am? R: No. (Both laugh) Wait, what was the senior citizen ? I m 67 years old. Is it time to go back to school and finish my Ph. D? Or is it time to continue to do what I m doing HERE, and adding to it uh by doing- by being the rep for the business world?
Sample Observation Field Notes Time Observation 11:00am Young male, around 20 years old, African American, talks to older female sitting nearby Interpretation They seem to be discussing something very serious. 11:03 am Two females chat excitedly about the Sociology class they from the night before They must have a really good professor.
