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Please consider the free, Web-based, FISMA-compliant, "Coding Analysis Toolkit" which has attracted over 1000 user accounts and recorded over 790,000 coding choices since fall 2007. Sent from my iPhone [log in to unmask] On Jul 22, 2009, at 12:47 PM, Sarah Kendal <[log in to unmask] > wrote: > Hello LBY > > > > I used NVIVO 7 to organise qualitative data from 50 semi structured interviews.It > kept everything in the right place and there was never any risk of > losing the link between an idea and the original source.It is also > great for iterative analysis as it is easy to change the coding. > It wasn't ideal for data display but this might not bother you. If I > was going to do what you are suggesting,I would use NVIVO again to > build up my coding framework. I went on a couple of courses to learn > how to use it and the best by far was run by Surrey University. > Sarah Kendal > > > > Quoting Subscribe Qual-Software Lby <[log in to unmask]>: > >> Hello. >> >> I am trying to plan my dissertation methods and am not sure which >> software >> package to use. I would like to transform open-ended qualitative >> responses >> (about 1000 paragraph length, qualitative responses) into >> quantitative >> codes to then analyze quantitatively in SPSS. Based on theory, I >> have a >> coding scheme in mind for how to code the qualitative data. >> Currently, based >> on this theory, I have 12 separate categories for codes. One way I >> have been >> thinking about trying to code the data is to try to code a particular >> construct/category as either absent (0), somewhat present (1), or >> present >> (2). I have been reading about different software packages and am >> not clear >> a) which package is best for my purposes? b) how I would go about >> using the >> software to accomplish this goal. My department owns a copy of >> Nvivo 8. I >> was also considering MAXqda? >> >> I would greatly appreciate any help/suggestions. >> >> thank you. >> Sincerely, >> LBY >>