Process
The five stages of framework analysis
Ritchie and Spencer's Framework Method, step by step
The five stages of framework analysis, the matrix method for qualitative data. You move from reading the data, to building a set of themes, to tagging every transcript, to summarizing it in a grid of cases and themes, to reading that grid for findings. Use it to plan an analysis with a team and a deadline. Koji automates transcription and much of the coding, so the stages that take days by hand shrink to hours.
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What's in this process
- Familiarization: Read transcripts, listen to recordings and note first impressions.
- Identify a thematic framework: Build the index from your research questions and from themes in the data.
- Indexing: Tag every transcript segment with the relevant codes.
- Charting: Summarize indexed data in a matrix of cases by themes.
- Mapping and interpretation: Read the matrix for patterns, contrasts and connections.
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