ABSTRACT
Making sense of the sea of data that results from a qualitative study is both daunting and exciting. There are basically two kinds of qualitative data analysis: narrative and ethnographic. Ethnographic analysis involves finding and making meaning through multiple stages of sorting and coding data into categories and finally into a set of interrelated themes which explain the data and answer the research questions. There is an ongoing interaction, and perhaps even an inseparable coupling, between the technical work of sorting and coding, and the human work of feeling, sensing, remembering, inferring, intuiting. Self-reflectivity goes hand in hand with technical work.
