Analysing Qualitative Data (Chapter 13, pp 470-508)
- Qualitative data are non-numerical data that have not been quantified. They result from the collection of non-standardised data that require classification and are analysed through the use of conceptualisation.
- The process of qualitative analysis generally involves the development of data categories, allocating units of your original data to appropriate categories, recognising relationships within and between categories of data, and developing and testing hypotheses or propositions to produce well-grounded conclusions.
- The process of data analysis and data collection is necessarily an interactive one.
- There are a number of aids: interview, observation, document and interim summaries, self-memos and maintaining a researcher's diary.
- Different qualitative analytical strategies can be identified, related to using either a deductively based or an inductively based approach to research.
- Quantifying some categories of qualitative data may help to analyse it.
- The use of computer-assisted qualitative data analysis softward (CAQDAS) can help during qualitative analysis with regard to project management and data organisation.
Unlearn
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Relearn
NIL. BAP did not undertake using qualitative data.
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