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Data Analysis and Interpretation Methods

This document discusses methods for analyzing quantitative and qualitative research data. Quantitative research analysis uses standardized methods to analyze numerical data, applying mathematical approaches to find patterns after all data has been collected. Qualitative research analysis uses less standardized approaches and can analyze data as it is collected to find relationships. Specific quantitative data analysis methods discussed include data coding by assigning codes to variables, creating a codebook, and conducting statistical analysis using graphs, tables, and distributions.

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Data Analysis and Interpretation Methods

This document discusses methods for analyzing quantitative and qualitative research data. Quantitative research analysis uses standardized methods to analyze numerical data, applying mathematical approaches to find patterns after all data has been collected. Qualitative research analysis uses less standardized approaches and can analyze data as it is collected to find relationships. Specific quantitative data analysis methods discussed include data coding by assigning codes to variables, creating a codebook, and conducting statistical analysis using graphs, tables, and distributions.

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Data Analysis and

Interpretation
Methods
Quantitative and Qualitative
Research Analyses
Qualitative Research Analysis Quantitative Research Analysis

Uses less standardized methods of data Uses a specialized and standardized set of
analysis data analysis methods

Uses many approaches to analyze data Applies a mathematical approach


Finds patterns or relationships and Data analysis does not start until all data
conducts analysis even during the data have been collected and summarized into
collection phase of research numbers. Data are manipulated to find
patterns or possible relationships.
Quantitative Data
Analysis
Data Coding
• The researcher reorganizes the data into a format
that can easily be processed by computers.
• They develop rules to assign numbers to variable
attributes.
• It is then necessary for them to establish coding
procedures and produce a well-organized and
comprehensive codebook prior to the collection of
data.
Steps in Data Coding
1. Encode collected data.
• When the data are not well organized, or they are
not in numerical form, researchers produce rules to
assign certain numbers to variable attributes.
• Assign a particular code to a particular variable.
Steps in Data Coding
2. Create a well-organized and detailed codebook.
• A codebook is a document that describes the coding
procedure and the location of data for variables in a
format that computers can use.
Steps in Data Coding
3. Transfer the information gathered from each
question in the questionnaire into a format that can be
processed by computers.
4. Conduct statistical analysis using computer
programs.
5. Verify the accuracy of coding.
Statistical Analysis
• Frequency distribution- the easiest method to use for
describing its numerical data
• Raw count table
• Column-Percentage Table
• Row-Percentage Table
•Using graphs
• Use of data table
• Bar graph
•Histogram
• a type of bar chart where the categories are in the form
of ranges of numbers
• it is used to show combined continuous data
•Pictogram
• A type of bar graph that uses an axis with
numbers and uses pictures to represent a
particular number of items
Pie Chart
• Looks like a circle or a pie that has been cut into
segments
• It is used to show how a whole is broken down into
significant parts
Line Graph
• Used to show dependent data and the development
of trends over time
• It depicts a point of value for each category and the
categories are joined in a line.

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