April 2023
Beginner
608 pages
21h 24m
English
DOI: 10.4324/9781003377986-33
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.
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