This open access textbook provides an introduction to the software program NVivo, the most widely used qualitative analysis program. It is a versatile program with an extensive range of accessible analysis tools, flexibly deployable in the diversity of qualitative analysis approaches.

Qualitative analysis is almost standard practice today with the help of a software program. Yet there are many misunderstandings about qualitative software. They support the qualitative researcher but never take over their manual and theoretical work. An in-depth understanding of the possibilities of a qualitative software program helps to free up time for the analysis itself.

The possibilities of NVivo in this book are approached from a researcher's perspective. That is precisely why gaining efficiency in using the software tools gets a prominent place in the chapters. The author examines basic skills, such as managing data, working with memos and coding qualitative data. This includes textual data (such as transcripts from interviews and focus groups) and audiovisual material (sound, video and images). The book also discusses more advanced analysis tools, such as case coding, queries, AI tools, matrices and models (maps).

This textbook is intended for all users of NVivo, both early career researchers and more advanced analysts, who want to further discover the secrets of this software package along the way.

About the Author

Dimitri Mortelmans is Senior Full Professor in Sociology at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Antwerp (Belgium). He is head of the Centre for Population, Family and Health (CPFH). Mortelmans holds an ERC Advanced Grant and (co-)leads different data infrastructure projects (Divorce in Flanders, Share Flanders, The Social Study). His research concentrates on family sociology and social demography. He has published on divorce, newly constituted families, gendered labour careers and singlehood. On qualitative methodology, he published the Handbook of Qualitative Research Methods (in Dutch). In demography, he (co-)edited Changing Family Dynamics and Demographic Evolution. The Family Kaleidoscope, Lone parenthood in the Life Course, Divorce in Europe, and the Research Handbook of Partnering in the Life Course.

Book Information
ISBN 9783031660139
Author Dimitri Mortelmans
Format Paperback
Page Count 280
Imprint Springer International Publishing AG
Publisher Springer International Publishing AG