Dear Caroline,
I am a doctroal student as well. And I have been using Nudist4 (now I begin
to use Nvivo) to analyze data on Chinese language. The program is able to
support Chinese characters as long as I'm using a computer which is a
Chinese version. If your computer is on Russian language, you should be
able to use Nudist/Nvivo analyzing the data. Good luck!
Wendy
At 04:31 PM 1/22/01 -0000, you wrote:
>I am a doctoral student and will be carrying out qualitative research in
>Russia later this year. Participants will be asked to write detailed
>accounts of specific incidents relating to the topic I am researching.
>There will be about 150-200 individual accounts, each will consist of just
>under 3 (A4) pages of handwritten Russian text. The main analysis I will
>need to do on these texts is content analysis to identify appropriate
>categories into which all of the incidents reported can be allocated. I will
>also want to be able to count the number of occurrences and other similar
>fairly simple numerical tasks.
>
>I am keen to use software for the analysis - I am reasonably computer
>literate but not brilliant. I have tried out the tutorial on the demo
>version of N4. It seemed OK but I have read elsewhere that others (N5,
>NVivo, Atlas.ti) may be better and/or easier to learn and use.
>
>But one of my main questions is obviously, which of these, if any, could I
>use to perform analysis on Russian language texts as I do not want to
>translate participants' replies before analysing them as that seems
>methodologically very unsound and, anyway, my Russian is OK for doing
>analysis on written texts.
>
>If any or all of these software programs can read Cyrillic, perhaps those in
>the know could also advise me how to input the data. I was planning to have
>the handwritten texts typed into Word in Russian and I could then format as
>required by the software. But perhaps it is also possible to scan from
>Russian handwriting? That would save some time and cost if it's possible.
>
>I'd appreciate any advice other list members have of doing computer assisted
>analysis on Russian language data.
>
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