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collection and analysis. What Figure 5.1 does illustrate is the overall progression of date collection and analysis.

The Data Analysis Spiral

John W. Cres well. Qualitative Inquiry & Research Design, 2013, p. 183.

Procedures

Examples

Thematic analysis, graphing

Themes, Propositions

Coding, Classifying, Interpreting

Codes, Categories, Comparisons

Reading, Memoing

Reflecting, Writing Notes, Questions

Data Managing

Files, Units, Organising

Data Collection

Figure 5.1. Data analysis spiral. Adapted from Creswell, 2013, p. 183.

5.7 Data Collection

5.7.1 Interviews An interview is a data collection method in which the interviewer asks questions of an interviewee in order to gather information and are ‘are ideally suited to experience-type research questions’ (Braun et al., 2013, p. 81). With reference to this study the research