Introduction to qualitative data analysis -- Review of qualitative approaches and their data analysis methods -- Understanding the art of coding qualitative data -- Preparing data to code -- Reflecting, acknowledging and bracketing your perspectives and preconceptions -- Documenting personal reflections and analytical process -- Manually assigning codes to data -- Developing categories and themes -- Connecting themes and developing tables and diagrams -- Using QDA miner lite to analyze qualitative data -- Using nvivo 12 to analyze qualitative data -- Using dedoose to analyze qualitative data -- Presenting qualitative findings -- Ensuring credibility of the analysis process and findings -- Appendix.

This book provides an easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide to those new to qualitative data coding, through the use of specific, worked examples. It covers creating codes, developing categories and themes, and determining the connections amongst them.