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Notes

 

Lyn Richards has written an NVivo tutorial to accompany her book: Richards, L. (2005) Handling Qualitative Data: A Practical Guide, London, Sage.

 

 

You need a clearly defined methodology or analytic strategy before you begin to analyse your data in a CAQDAS package. Visit Introduction to Qualitative Data Analysis and Methodologies.

 

 

Of interest to UK researchers - Regular courses on how to use NVivo are run at the CAQDAS networking project.

Using NVivo

Below are links to materials that tell you how to undertake some of the basic activities in qualitative data analysis software such as importing documents and starting projects, coding and its organisation, creating memos, text and code searching, reporting and retrieving information.

Many software developers now produce their own teaching materials that cover the basics of the software use. Where this is so the links below are to their materials. In other cases there are links to materials on this site that cover older versions of the software to help those who are still using these versions.

 

NVivo 8

Version 8 kept the same interface as version 7, but some functionality was extended - especially the handling of video files.

NVivo 7

NVivo jumped from version 2 to version 7 in 2006 partly to maintain the sequence of versions from NUD.IST 6, whose development ceased. Version 7 kept the underlying approach of NVivo 2 and extended its functionality but the program interface was substantially changed.

NVivo 2

These instructions cover NVivo version 2. QSR no longer sells NVivo 2 but it still supports it. NVivo 2 projects can be migrated to QSR's latest program, NVivo 8. The guides to its use are preserved here for those still using the program from 2002.