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Analysing results
Many people use a statistical package on their computers to analyse their results. The most commonly used package is called SPSS or Statistical Package for the Social Sciences. This provides all the statistical analysis you are likely to need and takes you through how to enter your data, name your variables, etc., with a good help website. There are numerous books on the market and courses with details on how to use SPSS and the various statistical tests.
Data gathered through qualitative methods are more unwieldy to analyse than numerical results, and methods need to be devised to analyse (e.g. through textual analysis) and code the data. Computer packages such as NVivo are available to assist with the analysis and coding of qualitative data such as interview transcripts, video recordings and focus group recordings.
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