Chapter Fourteen

Question 1

Coding

Answer 1

In quantitative research, codes are tags used to assign the data on each variable to a category of the variable in question. Numbers are usually assigned to each category to allow easier computer processing. In qualitative research, coding is the process in which data are broken down into components parts, which are then assigned names.

Question 2

Narrative Analysis

Answer 2

An approach focused on the search for and analysis of stories that people use to understand their lives and the world around them.

Question 3

QRS NVivo

Answer 3

A CAQDAS package that derives from but goes beyond NUD*IST (Non-numerical Unstructured Data Indexing Searching and Theorizing.

Question 4

Analytic Induction

Answer 4

An approach to the analysis of qualitative data in which the collection of data continues and the hypothesis is modified until no cases inconsistent with it are found.

Question 5

Survey

Answer 5

A research design in which data are collected from respondents, mainly by questionnaire or structured interview; typically, the data are then examined to detect relationships among variables.

Question 6

Theoretical sample

Answer 6

A term used mainly in the context of grounded theory to refer to sampling carried out in such a way that emerging theoretcial considerations guide the collection of data and/or the selection of cases (usually research participants). This process is supposed to continue until a point of theoretcial saturation.