Lesson 10 - Drawing Out Patterns and Themes From Data
This document discusses qualitative data analysis. It describes three major styles of qualitative data analysis: template analysis, editing analysis, and immersion/crystallization analysis. It also outlines the major activities in qualitative data analysis, including coding, categorizing, identifying themes in the data, and using computer software to manage qualitative data. Finally, it provides examples of data analysis processes for specific qualitative research traditions like grounded theory, phenomenology, and ethnography.
Lesson 10 - Drawing Out Patterns and Themes From Data
This document discusses qualitative data analysis. It describes three major styles of qualitative data analysis: template analysis, editing analysis, and immersion/crystallization analysis. It also outlines the major activities in qualitative data analysis, including coding, categorizing, identifying themes in the data, and using computer software to manage qualitative data. Finally, it provides examples of data analysis processes for specific qualitative research traditions like grounded theory, phenomenology, and ethnography.
are able to 1.Differentiate the three major styles of qualitative data analysis. 2.Describe the major activities and tasks in a qualitative data analysis. 3.Summarize the specific data analysis in different qualitative research traditions. Loosely structured narrative materials (diaries, verbatim dialogues) and field notes.
Qualitative Data Analysis
Involves coding and collating Requires creativity, hardwork, and sensitivity Labor-intensive and time-consuming More complex and challenging No Universal Rules for thematic or theoretical organization of data
(Polit and Beck, 2012)
Involves a more systematic and standardized to a more intuitive, subjective and interpretive analysis.
Three Major Styles:
Template analysis style Editing analysis style Immersion/Crystallization style Template Analysis Style The researchers creates a template or analysis guide to which the narrative data are applied.
Ethnography, Ethnology, Discourse Analysis,
and Ethnoscience Editing Analysis Style The researcher interprets what is read through the data searching for meaningful segments and units. Results to creation of codes and drawing out of thematic categories
Grounded Theory, Phenomenology,
Ethnomethodology Immersion / Crystallization Style Researchers immerse in and reflect on the text materials to develop an intuitive crystallization of the data. Highly interpretive and subjective
Hermeneutic or Critical Inquiries
1. Comprehending making sense 2. Synthesizing sifting and putting ideas together 3. Theorizing developing alternative explanations 4. Recontextualizing further developing a theory Tasks:
1. Transcribing Qualitative Data
2. Developing a Categorization Scheme 3. Coding Qualitative Data 4. Manually Organizing Qualitative Data 5. Managing Qualitative Data through Computers -Accurate verbatim description of audiotaped interviews
- Existing transcription conventions
- I – interviewer - P – participant - Overlaps in speaking turns - Time elapsed between utterances where there are gaps, nonlinguistic utterances - Classifying and indexing of data - Data is converted into themes (categories, smaller units or segments) - Segments are compared and distinguished with other segments - Emerging concepts are given labels Example A. Use of Food Services Program C. Strategies to Avoid Hunger 1. Food stamps 1. Bargain shopping 2. Food pantries 2. Borrowing money 3. Soup kitchen 3. Getting food from friends, relatives 4. Free school lunch programs 4. Eating old and unsafe food 5. Doubling up to share food costs 6. Stretching food, smaller portions 7. Smoking in lieu of eating 8. Illegal activities, fraud
B. Food Inadequacy experience D. Special Cases
1. Problems feeding family, having 1. Mothers sacrificing for children enough food 2. Effects of welfare reform on hunger 2. Having to eat undesirable food 3. Stigma 3. Hunger Sorted and categorized data are given codes.
WHAT IS CODING?
CODING - an act of using symbols, like letters or
words to represent arbitrary or subjective data (emotions, opinions, attitudes) to ensure secrecy or privacy of the data. Researchers highlight by coloring or using post-it notes to collate the content of the narrative materials.
WHAT IS COLLATING?
COLLATING – a way of bringing together the coded
data. Giving the data an orderly appearance is putting them in a graph, specifically a table of responses (data matrix). Researchers encode all the files to a computer and allows a specific program to code the words, phrases, ideas or concepts .
All coded data are retrieved and printed for analysis.
The programs do the indexing, retrieval, actual analysis and
integration of data.
Examples: The Ethnograph, MARTIN, QUALPRO, NUDIST,
HyperQual2 and ATLASTi 1. Grounded Theory - there is comparison of elements present in one data source to another data source - categories, properties or hypotheses are generated rather than testing them - produces a conceptual or theoretical model 2. Phenomenological a. read the entire set of protocols to get the sense of the whole b. discriminate units from participants’ description of phenomenon being studied 3. articulate the psychological insight in each of the meaning units 4. synthesize all the transformed meaning units into a consistent statement regarding participants’ experiences; can be expressed on a specific general level 3. Ethnographic a. Locate an informant b. Interview an informant c. Make an ethnographic record d. Ask descriptive questions e. Analyze ethnographic interviews f. Make a domain analysis g. Ask structural questions h. Make taxonomic analysis i. Ask contrast questions j. Make a componential analysis k. Discovering cultural themes l. Write the ethnography - Involves making sense out of the data - Occurs simultaneously with data analysis (categorizing of data, developing themes, integrating of themes) - May undergo self-scrutiny, peer review or external review - Considers alternative explanations