Chapter 6 - Addressing Qualitative Data Through Thematic Analysis

Question 1

Ethnography

Answer 1

A research approach where the researcher carries out extensive observations of a group through being involved in their activities over a period of time

Question 2

Thematic analysis

Answer 2

A qualitative method used to identify, analyse and report patterns (themes) in qualitative data.

Question 3

Immersion

Answer 3

The process of becoming very familiar it’s your data by scrutinising it repeatedly over a period of time

Question 4

Inductive coding

Answer 4

Codes are generated from the data

Question 5

Deductive coding

Answer 5

Codes are generated from existing literature

Question 6

Subthemes

Answer 6

The individual components of a theme

Question 7

Representative extracts

Answer 7

(Or excerpts, or exemplars) from interviews can be included in the text to provide an example of what participants actually said

Question 8

Data mining

Answer 8

The computer-assisted identification and retrieval of data do m a vast database

Question 9

Median

Answer 9

The score in the middle of a set of scores placed in order of magnitude