The Analysis of Qualitative Data

EDITOR’S NOTE: The proliferation of inexpensive home computers and the increasing accessibility of sophisticated computers in most colleges and universities are becoming recognized by many qualitative researchers as a useful means of coding, retrieving, and processing qualitative material. In the following article, Kriss Drass introduces LISPQUAL, a computer program designed to facilitate data analysis. Drass describes how LISPQUAL can perform many of the mechanical operations associated with qualitative data analysis and provides an example of data analysis using the program.