Guides to qualitative analysis
Practical guides to analysing interview and focus group data: when an approach fits, how it works step by step, and what the report has to say about it. Each guide names the analysis in Qualitative Analysis Workflow that follows it.
Directed content analysis: steps, example and codebook modes
Directed qualitative content analysis step by step, with an invented codebook example, the residual, and when to keep your codebook fixed or let it grow.
Framework analysis: steps, example and use in evaluation
The Framework Method step by step, with an invented evaluation example, case-by-theme matrices, and why evaluative judgements need explicit criteria.
How to analyse focus group data without losing the group
Analyse each group first, count speakers or groups (not turns) for prevalence, and record agreement and interaction. Steps and a worked example.
How to choose a qualitative analysis method
Choose an analysis approach for interview and focus group data by your question, what you bring to the data, and the claims you need to make.
Inductive vs deductive coding: what the labels decide
Inductive codes come from the data, deductive codes from prior theory or a brief. How each tradition uses them, the hybrid approach and a worked example.
Rapid qualitative analysis: steps and trade-offs
How rapid qualitative analysis works: domains, summary template, case-by-domain matrix and synthesis. When it is enough and what the report must admit.