What can be the best method/technique to analyze/quantify pure qualitative data (other than NVivo or SPSS etc)?
STATA is strictly for the analysis of qualitative variables, so if you have text data, it will not help.
Quantifying qualitative data typically involves more deductive forms of content analysis. This strategy uses a codebook to mark and count your topics of interest, so qualitative data analysis software (e.g., NVivo) would be quite useful. All of these programs can export data in spreadsheet that can be imported into quantitative software for subsequent statistical analysis.
Good books on quantitatively oriented content analysis include the ones by either Nuendorf or Krippendorff.
You can use STATA. It‘s popularly used in several fields including economics, sociology, political science, biomedicine and epidemiology. There are also SAS, PSPP, Minitabs, etc.
My personal favorite however is SPSS.
STATA is strictly for the analysis of qualitative variables, so if you have text data, it will not help.
Quantifying qualitative data typically involves more deductive forms of content analysis. This strategy uses a codebook to mark and count your topics of interest, so qualitative data analysis software (e.g., NVivo) would be quite useful. All of these programs can export data in spreadsheet that can be imported into quantitative software for subsequent statistical analysis.
Good books on quantitatively oriented content analysis include the ones by either Nuendorf or Krippendorff.
There are many qualitative data analysis softwares, such as SPSS, STATA, SMARTplus, and AMOS (for Structural Equation Modeling). Each software has its features.
A few problematic answers on this thread.
quantitative = numbers*. statistical data, SPSS etc
qualitative = words. Rich, thick Nvivo etc. You can not use SPSS to work with interviews, fgs, etc.
Qda Miner lite is a good, basic free qual software. See https://provalisresearch.com/products/qualitative-data-analysis-software/freeware/
No software will analysis the data. Types of analysis are grounded theory, thematic analyisis (framework analysis), narative etc.
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