Abstract
NVivo is software designed to support analysis of qualitative and mixed methods data. It belongs to the “theory-building” class of qualitative data analysis programs (Tesch, 1990) as it goes beyond providing basic tools for data management, word searching, coding and retrieval: NVivo allows researchers to interrogate their data and associated coding systems through the application of logic-based queries that identify connections in their data and thus to develop (and test) higher-order concepts and theoretical propositions. NVivo was originally developed by Lyn and Tom Richards, the founders of QSR International (www.qsrinternational.com), with the initial intention of meeting the needs of researchers working with non-numeric data in the social and behavioral sciences. Despite its primary focus on tools for analysis of qualitative data, since its very early days NVivo (or NUD*IST, as it was previously known) has also supported the work of mixed methods researchers looking for ways to combine demographic and numeric variables with their text data, or to convert qualitative coding to quantitative variables (Bazeley, 2002).
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | The Routledge Reviewer's Guide to Mixed Methods Analysis |
Editors | Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie, R. Burke Johnson |
Place of Publication | U.S. |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 343-354 |
Number of pages | 12 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9780203729434 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781138305267 |
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Publication status | Published - 2021 |