Using Nvivo in Qualitative Research

by Lyn Richards

• ISBN13: 9780761965244
• ISBN10: 0761965246
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781849206976
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-12-13
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
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Summary

From getting started to completing your research project, this book provides a practical guide to using QSR NUD+IST NVivo, the latest qualitative software package. Written in clear language, the book is accompanied by a CD-ROM which carries a demonstration version of the software, together with six tutorials to use with your own data. Much more than a manual, the book offers advice with each section, addressing a range of research approaches and priorities. Each chapter starts with an overview and includes tips on design issues and ways of flexibly managing your project.QSR NVivo is distributed by Scolari, SAGE Publications Software.

Table of Contents

About this book	1	(8)
Who can use this book?	3	(1)
Understanding the software: for supervisors, colleagues, research clients	3	(1)
Introductory level learning: for students, self-teaching researchers, explorers	3	(1)
Commencing research with NVivo: users and research colleagues	4	(1)
Qualitative research and NVivo	4	(1)
What this book does not do	5	(1)
Using this book	5	(4)
A Project in NVivo	9	(18)
Getting started	11	(5)
NVivo's Parts and Processes	11	(1)
The types of data in a project	12	(1)
The processes of a project	13	(1)
Working in NVivo	14	(1)
Different goals different processes: how the parts combine	14	(2)
NVivo at a glance:	16	(5)
Doing it: Creating a Project	21	(2)
Choosing a Typical or Custom Project	21	(1)
Project Properties	22	(1)
Importing a NUD*IST Project	22	(1)
How to get going in a project	23	(3)
Starting with documents	23	(1)
Starting with nodes	24	(1)
Starting with Sets	25	(1)
Starting with attributes	25	(1)
Starting with models	25	(1)
Read on...	26	(1)
Documents	27	(26)
Qualitative documents: rich, dynamic, compound	29	(1)
Rich documents	29	(1)
Compound documents: qualitative linking	29	(1)
Memos: full status documents	29	(1)
Coding combined with editing	30	(1)
Types of documents	30	(1)
Summary of document sources, processes and uses	31	(1)
Choosing the type of document	32	(1)
Reasons for using a Proxy	32	(1)
Reasons for making the document in NVivo's editor	33	(1)
Designing the Document System	33	(2)
Designing for editable documents	33	(1)
No need for sameness	34	(1)
Compound documents for new purposes	34	(1)
Starting Documents	35	(5)
Importing a rich text file	35	(2)
Making a Proxy Document:	37	(2)
Starting (and continuing) by editing documents	39	(1)
Editing Documents	40	(1)
Using the Rich Text Editor	40	(1)
Editing in the Document Browser	40	(1)
Visual coding	41	(2)
Using font, color, and style for visual coding	41	(1)
When to use visual coding:	42	(1)
Managing documents	43	(4)
Using the Document Explorer	43	(1)
Using Document Properties	44	(1)
Deleting expanding and duplicating documents	45	(2)
Memos	47	(4)
Making and using memos	48	(1)
Memos and DocLinks	49	(1)
What you can do with memos	49	(1)
How to identify memos in analysis procedures	50	(1)
Profiles and Reports of Documents	51	(2)
Nodes	53	(22)
Nodes in NVivo	55	(2)
Abstraction categorization and coding	55	(1)
Nodes and other project processes	56	(1)
Node Areas	57	(2)
Free Nodes	58	(1)
Tree Nodes	58	(1)
Case Nodes	58	(1)
Creating Nodes	59	(2)
Creating a node while adding during coding	59	(1)
Creating a node without doing any coding at it	59	(1)
Creating nodes to link to an Extract	60	(1)
Creating nodes automatically	60	(1)
Managing Nodes	61	(6)
Using the Node Explorer	61	(2)
Nodes and their properties	63	(1)
Changing Nodes	64	(2)
Managing coding: the Node Browser	66	(1)
Designing your node system	67	(6)
Ways of organizing nodes	68	(1)
Organizing nodes in Trees	68	(1)
How big should the node system be?	69	(1)
Case nodes and handling cases	70	(3)
Profiles and Reports of Nodes	73	(2)
Attributes	75	(16)
The role of attributes in qualitative projects	77	(1)
Using attributes in NVivo	78	(6)
Project-wide consistency with document and node attributes	78	(1)
Using the Attribute Explorers	79	(1)
Using document attributes	80	(1)
Using node attributes	80	(2)
Searching and Scoping searches according to attributes	82	(2)
Attribute values	84	(3)
Strings of characters	84	(1)
Numbers	84	(1)
Boolean	85	(1)
Dates and times	85	(1)
Using Date/time attributes for analyzing time	86	(1)
No need to restrict values	87	(1)
Handling the absence of information	87	(1)
Designing an attribute system	87	(1)
Name	87	(1)
Value type	88	(1)
Default value	88	(1)
Starting an attribute system	88	(3)
Creating and editing attributes and values	89	(1)
Importing and exporting a table of attributes & values	90	(1)
Linking Data	91	(14)
Qualitative linking and compound documents	93	(1)
Making DataLinks	94	(2)
DataLink anchors	95	(1)
Choosing what you link to	95	(1)
DataBites: linking to annotations and external files	96	(1)
Annotations	96	(1)
External files	97	(1)
DocLinks: linking to a project document	97	(3)
Linking to documents that are not Memos	98	(1)
Memos and DocLinks	99	(1)
NodeLinks: linking to a node, and coded text	100	(3)
Using NodeLinks	100	(1)
Extracts and NodeLinks	101	(2)
Integrating DataLinks	103	(2)
Coding at nodes	105	(22)
Qualitative Coding	107	(6)
The (many) goals of coding at nodes	108	(1)
Creative coding: visual or node coding?	109	(1)
Descriptive coding: attributes or nodes?	110	(1)
Combining visual coding, attributes and node coding	111	(2)
Ways of doing coding at nodes	113	(8)
Why have different ways of coding?	113	(1)
Coding with the Speed Coding Bar	114	(2)
Coding and Viewing Coding with the Coder	116	(2)
Coding with the Paragraph Coder	118	(1)
Auto-coding with the Section Coder	119	(1)
Coding with the Search Tool	120	(1)
A note on coding a proxy document	121	(1)
Using the Node Browser	121	(3)
Coding-on: using the Node Browser for further coding	122	(1)
Using Node Browser's presentation of coded material	123	(1)
Viewing coded material in context	123	(1)
Viewing and reviewing coding	124	(3)
Viewing with the Coder	124	(1)
Coding Stripes in the Document or Node Browser	124	(3)
Shaping data - Sets and Trees	127	(16)
Shaping in sets	129	(5)
What is a Set?	129	(1)
Why use Sets rather than other ways of grouping items?	129	(1)
Uses for Sets	130	(1)
Making Sets	131	(3)
Shaping the Node System	134	(9)
Hierarchical storage of categories	134	(2)
Designing and using your Node System	136	(3)
Goals for a node system	139	(4)
Modeling	143	(14)
The challenges of qualitative modeling	145	(1)
Problems of modeling off the computer	145	(1)
Goals of computer-aided qualitative modeling	145	(1)
Using the Model Explorer	146	(6)
Creating a model	147	(1)
From the model to the data	147	(1)
Making the model changing and multidimensional	148	(3)
Storing exploring and revising models	151	(1)
Where does modeling fit in the research process?	152	(5)
Preparatory Stages	153	(1)
Research Design Models	153	(1)
Analysis Process Models	154	(1)
Analysis Presentation Models	155	(2)
Searching	157	(30)
Understanding Searching	159	(5)
What do I want to ask?	160	(1)
Where do I want to ask it?	160	(1)
What do I want to do with the results?	161	(1)
Search in progress	162	(1)
Using the Search Tool	163	(1)
Search operations	164	(10)
The Simple Searches: Node or Attribute ``Look-Up'' and Text Search	164	(3)
The Relational Searches	167	(7)
Scoping the Search	174	(2)
Setting the Scope	174	(1)
Saving and Reusing Scopes	175	(1)
Assaying the Scope	176	(2)
Wh-Questions	176	(2)
Handling Results	178	(6)
How do you want the results?	179	(1)
Assaying the results	180	(2)
Using the live matrix display	182	(2)
Making Searches for your Purposes	184	(2)
Gathering data	184	(1)
Dissecting data: an extended example	184	(2)
Limits of Search	186	(1)
Getting it together	187	(18)
Choices and choosing	189	(1)
Discovering and developing categories	189	(1)
Linking data and ideas or categories	190	(1)
Choosing how (and whether) you code	190	(2)
To code or not to code?	192	(1)
Bringing data together	192	(1)
Differentiating Data	193	(1)
Ordering and organizing	194	(2)
Pathways to analysis tools	196	(1)
Viewing and pattern finding	196	(1)
Getting it together with statistical data	197	(2)
Import attributes	198	(1)
Export attributes	198	(1)
Exporting coding (and a lot of other information!)	198	(1)
Design Issues	199	(1)
Getting it together from the start	199	(3)
Audit document	200	(1)
Project Document	200	(2)
And now viewing, teaching, presenting	202	(1)
Free project viewer	202	(1)
Make your own tutorial	202	(1)
Computer presentations	203	(1)
Getting help	203	(2)
Internet Resources	203	(1)
Discussion Forum	204	(1)
Glossary	205	(10)
Index	215