Imagine that you have conducted qualitative interviews with a small sample of nurses about their jobs. You have done 25 interviews, each about 30 minutes long, resulting in about 20 pages of transcription. Now that you have about 500 pages of data, how would you go about analyzing the data?

a. select topics that participants have talked about
b. create categories through coding
c. look for patterns
d. subject to quantitative statistical manipulation
e. select topics that participants have talked about, create categories through coding, and after categorizing, look for patterns


e

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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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