{"id":242,"date":"2020-07-25T11:56:45","date_gmt":"2020-07-25T10:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/greenforum\/?p=242"},"modified":"2023-12-04T11:57:25","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T11:57:25","slug":"qualitative-analysis-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/greenforum\/index.php\/2020\/07\/25\/qualitative-analysis-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Qualitative Analysis Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"viewer-foo\" class=\"-Zro6 -ZADH IjV6v AnCKd _57WYp\"><span class=\"d0767\">focus on unstructured and non-numerical data. Qualitative data include fieldnotes, open questionnaires, interviews, focus groups, participant-observation, audio or video recordings in natural settings, documents of various kinds (publicly available or personal, paper-based or electronic records that are already available or elicited by the researcher), and even material artefacts. <\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"viewer-b9189\" class=\"-Zro6 -ZADH IjV6v AnCKd _57WYp\"><span class=\"d0767\">The use of these data is informed by various methodological or philosophical frameworks, as part of various methods, such as ethnography, discourse analysis , interpretative phenomenological analysis and other phenomenological methods. <\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"viewer-69qn9\" class=\"-Zro6 -ZADH IjV6v AnCKd _57WYp\"><span class=\"d0767\">Qualitative research methods have been used in education, sociology, anthropology, political science, psychology and social work .<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"viewer-6ihjg\" class=\"-Zro6 -ZADH IjV6v AnCKd _57WYp\"><span class=\"d0767\">The most common qualitative data analysis software are:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"xErDo AnCKd\">\n<li class=\"_04hd2 IjV6v\" dir=\"auto\">\n<div>\n<p id=\"viewer-9tfjd\" class=\"-Zro6 -ZADH IjV6v AnCKd _57WYp\"><span class=\"d0767\">ATLAS.ti<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"_04hd2 IjV6v\" dir=\"auto\">\n<div>\n<p id=\"viewer-6oav7\" class=\"-Zro6 -ZADH IjV6v AnCKd _57WYp\"><span class=\"d0767\">Dedoose <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"_04hd2 IjV6v\" dir=\"auto\">\n<div>\n<p id=\"viewer-al0a0\" class=\"-Zro6 -ZADH IjV6v AnCKd _57WYp\"><span class=\"d0767\">MAXQDA <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"_04hd2 IjV6v\" dir=\"auto\">\n<div>\n<p id=\"viewer-4hl6j\" class=\"-Zro6 -ZADH IjV6v AnCKd _57WYp\"><span class=\"d0767\">NVivo<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"_04hd2 IjV6v\" dir=\"auto\">\n<div>\n<p id=\"viewer-6p2vp\" class=\"-Zro6 -ZADH IjV6v AnCKd _57WYp\"><span class=\"d0767\">QDA MINER<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>focus on unstructured and non-numerical data. Qualitative data include fieldnotes, open questionnaires, interviews, focus groups, participant-observation, audio or video recordings in natural settings, documents of various kinds (publicly available or personal, paper-based or electronic records that are already available or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/greenforum\/index.php\/2020\/07\/25\/qualitative-analysis-tools\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rri-data-technologies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/greenforum\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/greenforum\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/greenforum\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/greenforum\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/greenforum\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/greenforum\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/greenforum\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/greenforum\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/greenforum\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/greenforum\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}