Qualitative Data Analysis (Steps)
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Steps in Qualitative Data Analysis
Step 1
• Transcribe all the data
Step 2
• Organize all the data
Step 3
• Give codes to your first set of field notes drawn from observations, interviews, or document reviews
Step 4
• Note personal reflections or other comments in the margin
Step 5
• Sort and sift through the materials to identify similar phrases, relationships between variables, patterns, themes, distinct differences between subgroups, and common sequences
Step 6
• Identify these patterns and processes, commonalities, and differences and take them out to the field in the next wave of data collection
Step 7
• Begin elaborating a small set of generalizations that cover the consistencies discerned in the database
Step 8
• Examine those generalizations in light of a formalized body of knowledge in the form of constructs or theories