Table 2.

The five steps of analysis data.

	Activities	Rationale
Stage 1	Repeatedly read each transcript, as a whole	Obtain a global picture of the interview and become familiar with the interviewee‘s verbal style and vocabulary.Each new reading of the transcript might also provide new perspectives.
Stage 2	Code the transcript by making notes corresponding to the fundamental units of meanings.	Make descriptive notes using the participant's own words.
Stage 3	Make conceptual notes through processes of condensation, abstraction, and comparison of the initial notes.	Categorize initial notes and reach a higher level of abstraction.
Stage 4	Identify initial themes. Provide text quotes that illustrate the main ideas of each theme.	Themes are labels that summarize the essence of a number of related conceptual notes. They are used to capture the experience of the phenomenon under study.
Stage 5	Identify recurrent themes across transcripts and produce a coherent ordered table of the themes and sub-themes.	Move from the particular to the shared across multiple experiences. Recurrent themes reflect a shared understanding of the phenomena among all participants.During this more analytic stage, researchers try to make sense of the associations between the themes found.