User:Artful inquiry/sandbox/Computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software

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 * 1 Computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software
 * 1.1 Contents
 * 1.2 Definition[edit]
 * 1.3 Comparison of CAQDAS software[edit]
 * 1.4 Pros and cons[edit]
 * 1.5 See also[edit]
 * 1.6 References[edit]
 * 1.7 External links[edit]

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Computer Assisted/Aided Qualitative Data Analysis Software (CAQDAS) offers tools that assist with qualitative research such as transcription analysis, coding and text interpretation, recursive abstraction, content analysis, discourse analysis, grounded theory methodology, etc.

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 * 1 Definition
 * 2 Comparison of CAQDAS software
 * 3 Pros and cons
 * 4 See also
 * 5 References
 * 6 External links

Definition[edit][edit]
CAQDAS is used in psychology, marketing research, ethnography, public health and other social sciences. The CAQDAS Networking project[1] lists the following tools. A CAQDAS program should have:
 * Content searching tools
 * Coding tools
 * Linking tools
 * Mapping or networking tools
 * Query tools
 * Writing and annotation tools

Pros and cons[edit][edit]
Such software helps to organize, manage and analyse information.[27] The advantages of using this software include saving time, managing huge amounts of qualitative data, having increased flexibility, having improved validity and auditability of qualitative research, and being freed from manual and clerical tasks. Concerns include increasingly deterministic and rigid processes, privileging of coding, and retrieval methods; reification of data, increased pressure on researchers to focus on volume and breadth rather than on depth and meaning, time and energy spent learning to use computer packages, increased commercialism, and distraction from the real work of analysis.[28]

See also[edit][edit]

 * Idea networking
 * Computer Assisted Mixed Methods Research Analysis Software
 * Multimethodology
 * Qualitative economics
 * Quantitative research
 * Qualitative marketing research
 * Qualitative psychological research
 * Sampling (case studies)
 * Sensemaking

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External links[edit][edit]

 * The CAQDAS Networking Project maintained by University of Surrey offers advice and reviews on various software packages.
 * Harald Klein's comprehensive guide to CAQDAS