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Qualitative Research
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Qualitative Research

by Maggi Savin-Baden, Claire Howell Major
April 2023
Beginner
608 pages
21h 24m
English
Routledge
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Chapter 27 Data handling and coding

DOI: 10.4324/9781003377986-33

INTRODUCTION

There comes a time during the research process when researchers must face their data. Sometimes, it appears as if there is a mountain of them to deal with and researchers must choose how they will handle them. Researchers go about it in a variety of ways, some of which we describe in this chapter. When beginning qualitative data analysis, most qualitative researchers engage in some combination of the following phases: characterizing, cutting, coding, categorizing, converting and creating. In this chapter we present these phases and then suggest some ways of doing preliminary data analysis.

CHARACTERIZE

One of the first steps in the process of data analysis ...

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