Methodology handbook: ethnography and data analysis

Abstract

This document is sharing the methodological perspective on ethnography and data analysis of the TRANSGANG project. The aim is to provide to the local research teams a guide about ethnographic perspectives, tools and data analyses strategy, to be able to apply using NVivo software, and some references to ensure these perspectives. The objective of the TRANSGANG project is a comparative investigation based on one stage of local analysis and two stages of secondary analysis of the data collected according to the methodological approach. These three-level analyses will combine the results in a unique and transnational picture of street youth groups without losing the cultural particularities of the different places. The central and contrast cases involve a combination of qualitative techniques (our tools) such as narrative interviews, focus groups, life stories and participant observation, but it is necessary to work with similar analysis categories in each country.