Can You Use Thematic Analysis for Questionnaires?

Yes. Certainly. Thematic analysis helps you make your qualitative study more accurate. ... In triangulation methods of research, thematic analysis (Braun & Clarke, 2006) could be used to analysed for open-ended questions of a structured questionnaire where it is being used to support and verify the quantitative questions.

How do you do thematic questionnaire analysis?

Steps in a Thematic Analysis
  1. Familiarize yourself with your data.
  2. Assign preliminary codes to your data in order to describe the content.
  3. Search for patterns or themes in your codes across the different interviews.
  4. Review themes.
  5. Define and name themes.
  6. Produce your report.

What can thematic analysis be used for?

Thematic analysis can be used to analyse most types of qualitative data including qualitative data collected from interviews, focus groups, surveys, solicited diaries, visual methods, observation and field research, action research, memory work, vignettes, story completion and secondary sources.

James H. Sterling

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