ABSTRACT
There are several ways in which qualitative data can be organized and presented. In this chapter we introduce some important, useful and widely used ways. These address several issues, including:
tabulating dataOO seven ways of organizing and presenting data OO analysis narrative and biographical approaches to data OO analysis systematic approaches to data analysisOO methodological tools for analysing qualitative dataOO
We provide several worked examples here, for clarification. It is also important for the researcher to index and provide a record of the provenance of the data, i.e. to record the dates, context, time, participants, researcher, location and so on, so that the setting for the data, and indeed their chronology, can be determined – the latter being useful in charting how situations emerge, evolve, change, lead to other situations, how networks emerge and how causality might be established.
