ABSTRACT

There are several ways in which qualitative data can be organized and presented. This chapter introduces some important, useful and widely used ways which address several issues, including: tabulating data; ten ways of organizing, analysing and presenting data analysis (by groups of people, by individuals, by issues or themes, by research question, by data collection instrument, by case study or studies, by narratives, by event, by time sequence and time frame, by theoretical perspectives); narrative and biographical approaches to data analysis; systematic approaches to data analysis; and methodological tools for analysing qualitative data (e.g. analytic induction, constant comparison, typological analysis, enumeration, coding and the tools of grounded theory). In addressing these, the chapter provides worked examples and indicates their strengths and limitations.