DATA ANALYSIS
   •The purpose of data analysis is to organised, provide 
   structure to and elicit meaning from the research data
   •Qualitative analysis is very tasking and requires insight, 
   ingenuity, creativity, conceptual sensitivity and sheer 
   hard work (Polit & Hungler, 2001)
   •As recognised by Parahoo (2006), data analysis in 
   qualitative research start when the data is being 
   collected and there after the researcher make judgement 
   based on the data that is gotten relating it to the 
   phenomenon that is under study. 
       DATA ANALYSIS CONTD
  • Jacelon and O’Dell (2005) said researcher serves as 
    the instrument of data analysis because he explore 
    and reflect on what have been discussed during the 
    interview process
  • After gathering life world descriptions of personal 
    experience, each account become a ‘text’ that is 
    ready for the analysis of meaning and for the 
    formulation of these meaning into a coherent story 
    of inter-related themes and insight
      DATA ANALYSIS CONTD
  • Analysis of qualitative data (interview) involves 
   transcribing of data verbatim and the 
   researcher should make sure that it is 
   accurately transcribed.
  • Another step is organising data into classes and 
   indexing them and data gotten is converted into 
   smaller, more manageable unit that can be 
   retrieved and review. 
  • The next step is encoding of schemes i.e placed 
   into themes and categories (Polit & Beck, 2010).
         ANALYSING QUALITATIVE DATA
                  Reading                             Coding
                                    On field
                                    Interpreting
                                   Post field
                Reducing                              Displaying
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         CONTENT ANALYSIS
  • Content analysis is an approach used to quantify 
    content in terms of predetermined categories and 
    in a systematic and replicable manner (Bryman, 
    2012). 
  • Content analysis is an important strategy based on 
    listing, counting and categorising participants’ 
    words into text 
  • In content analysis, the most frequent word 
    spoken or used by the participants is written 
    down and the number of occurrence is noted and 
    put in relevant text