Hi dear colleagues and researchers,
I conducted a qualitative fieldwork study to gain a phenomenological understanding of the everyday life experiences of 8 immigrant Afghan women who live in Auckland. That understanding was supposed to contribute to an exploration of the way they relate to their public life in the city through looking at different constructs and dimensions of place attachment. I, as the female researcher coming from a non-western country, also, explained my reflexivity and proportionality in relation to the participants and the (inter)subjective approach that I have in the research. So, in-depth semi-structured interviews, cognitive mapping, photo-elicitation, as well as participant observation were applied to collect the required data and have a collaborative and trustworthy relationship with the participants in different layers of interaction.
Now, in order to give more clarification in my methodology chapter, I need to explain my analytical approach. I am not sure 100% about the best compatible approach for analyzing the data in my study. Whether a thematic analysis or an interpretative phenomenological analysis or a discourse analysis?
I would highly appreciate your opinions and advises.
Regards,
Roja
According to my experience, template analysis (or thematic analysis) is the most practical way to analyze qualitative data.
If I may take a stab at this? You said "everyday life experience." Might this be a phenomenological study. You also have semistructured interviews, obervation, cognitive mapping and photo elicitation. Might this be a case study? With this form of data in the west, the best form of data analysis would be a program. There are several. Handcoding (tedious), NVivo, CAT, MAXQDA, ATLAS.ti, to name a few. Google qualitative data analysis programs, see what pops up and read. I hope this helps and looking forward to additional answers.
Thank you Lihong for your recommendation. yeah, I am thinking more about thematic analysis myself. just wanted to make sure if this is the most compatible one to what I have been studying.
Thank you dear Laverne. Yes I used NVivo for organizing and coding the data I collected from the fieldwork study. My question is more about the methodological approach I could take to analyse the data I collected from the fieldwork study, and coded and and organized in NVivo.
You are welcome. I used both thematic analysis and Grounded Theory approaches. I concluded that thematic analysis is more practical and useful, whereas GT goes a lot deeper and thus is much more difficult to control.
I use both NVivo and Atlas.TI. They are more or less the same.
Dear Lihong. I really appreciate your advice. I think I am also going to use thematic analysis applied in phenomenological research.
Thank you very much again.
In fact, for the analysis of daily life on the experience of migrants, it seems to me that the Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) is adequate. I am currently working on a methodological proposal for the analysis of everyday life from the sociofenomenology of Alfred Schütz. However, this is not yet published.
Dear Roja,
Our analysis strategy is part of our methodology. As you said that you started with the phenomenological approach, it means that you created rich data. If you already made coding than you already have a strategy. Analytical steps in the analysis start with coding. In fact, you had two options: to be more interpretive (like in thematic analysis) or to be more systematic (in-vivo coding, line-by-line coding). I prefer the second one because it gives unique experience to discover something new instead of imposing our concepts.
Best regards,
Elif
Thank you so much Yuche, Daniel and Elif. I really appreciate your advises.
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