Familiarisation with the data through review, reading, listening etc |
Transcription of tape recorded material |
Organisation and indexing of data for easy retrieval and identification |
Coding (may be called indexing) |
Identification of themes |
Re-coding |
Development of provisional categories |
Exploration of relationships between categories |
Refinement of themes and categories |
Development of theory and incorporation of pre-existing knowledge |
Testing of theory against the data |
Report writing, including excerpts from original data if appropriate (eg quotes from interviews) |