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Lesson 12 Data Analysis Updated

Data analysis is the process of understanding and interpreting data collected through various methods to answer research questions. It involves coding, collating, and categorizing data, particularly in qualitative analysis, which focuses on subjective information from participants. The analysis requires systematic organization, description, and interpretation of findings, while also considering the validity of the data.

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Lesson 12 Data Analysis Updated

Data analysis is the process of understanding and interpreting data collected through various methods to answer research questions. It involves coding, collating, and categorizing data, particularly in qualitative analysis, which focuses on subjective information from participants. The analysis requires systematic organization, description, and interpretation of findings, while also considering the validity of the data.

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Data Analysis

LESSON 12
Nature of Data Analysis
DATA ANALYSIS is a process of understanding
data or known facts or assumptions serving as the
basis of any claims or conclusions you have about
something. You collect these data in many ways:
observation, interview, documentary analysis, and
research instruments like questionnaires, test etc.
Your primary aim in analyzing recorded data is to
find out if they exist or operate to give answers to
the research questions you raised prior to your
acts of collecting them.
Nature of Data Analysis (cont.)
Coding – is your act of using symbols like
letters or words to represent arbitrary or
subjective data (emotions, opinions, attitudes) to
ensure secrecy or privacy of data.
Collating – is your way of bringing together the
coded data. Giving the data an orderly
appearance is putting them in graph, specifically
a table of responses.
Nature of Data Analysis (cont.)
Categorizing-involves understanding and
defining concepts emerging from the data by
identifying social patterns and giving meaning
aligned with their research. Tools like diagrams
or models to understand the relationships among
these concepts can be utilized. The quality of
these definitions are based on clarity, accuracy,
reliability, applicability, and their contribution to
theory and practice.
Qualitative Data Analysis
You analyze data that reflect the participants’
thoughts, feelings, attitudes, or views about
something. These are subjective data that are
expressed in words which serve as the unit of
analysis in a qualitative research. You examine
these subjective data to understand how
related or relevant they are to your research
problem or specific research questions.
Qualitative Data Analysis (cont.)
This process is time-consuming as it makes you
deal with data coming from wide sources of
information. It is good if all the data you collected
from varied sources of knowledge work favorably
for your research study, but ironically, some of
these may not have strong relation to your
research questions. This is also a rigorous act of a
thematic or theoretical organization of ideas or
information into a certain format that is capable of
presenting groups of responses.
Qualitative Data Analysis (cont.)
Analyzing the data and synthesizing them
based on one principal idea, theory , or
pattern demand a lot of time and effort, let
alone, the methodical ways you have to
adhere to in presenting the results as long
written discussions containing verbal or
graphical explanations of your findings.
Data Analysis and Interpretation
STEPS
1. Organize systematically the voluminous data
2. Describe “the various pertinent aspects of the study:
 including the setting,
 the individuals being studied,
 the purpose of any activities examined,
 the viewpoints of the participants, and
 the effects of any activities on the participants.”
Data Analysis and Interpretation
STEPS (cont.)
3. Do the Interpretation by
 “explaining the findings,
 answering ‘why’ questions, and
 putting patterns into analytic framework.
Interpretation: “more dependent on the researcher’s background,
skills, biases, and knowledge”
Basis: descriptive information
Data Analysis and Interpretation
STEPS (cont.)
4. Examine the Internal and external validity of QR:
Internal validity: “accuracy of information and how it
matches reality”; enhanced via triangulation (agreement
with other data obtained from other sources).
External validity: “limited generalizability of the findings,
and the need, if possible, to replicate the study and its
finding
Example of Data Analysis

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