Analyzing and Interpreting Ethnographic Data

Discusses methods for organising retrieving, rendering manageable, and interpreting the data collection n ethnographic research. A variety of methods are offered for transforming fieldnotes, observations, audio and videotapes, questionnaires, surveys, documents, maps and other kinds of data into research results.

Contents:

1. Analysis and Interpretation —

2. In-the-Field Analysis —

3. Tidying Up —

4. Analysis From the Top Down —

5. Analysis From the Bottom Up: The Item Level of Analysis —

6. Creating a Codebook —

7. Preliminary Results: Identifying Patterns and Structures —

8. Managing Quantitative Data —

9. Analyzing Ethnographic Survey Data —

10. Fine-Tuning Results: Assembling Components, Structures, and Constituents —

11. Creating Interpretations.

• Author
• Margaret Diane LeCompte

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 243

• Series
• Ethnographer's Toolkit

• Publisher
• Altamira Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780761989745

• Genres
• anthropology

• Release date
• 1999