This volume shows how researchers actively and consciously arrive at their themes, revealing the complexity of making sense of thousands of pages of interview data, multiple data sources, and diverse types of data.

List of TablesList of FiguresAcknowledgementsEditorsContributorsIntroduction: Real Stories of How This Volume HappenedM. Elise Radina and Áine M. HumbleSection 1: StoriesChapter 1: Analyzing Self and Other in Autoethnography: Telling Secrets About One’s Stillborn ChildMarcus B. Weaver-HightowerChapter 2: Creating Research Poetry: A Nursing Home ExampleEvonne MillerChapter 3: Applying Indigenous Analytical Approaches to Sexual Health Research: A Reflection on ᐅᓂᒃᑲᐊᖃᑎᒋᐃᓐᓂᖅ Unikkaqatigiiniq (Storytelling) and ᓴᓇᓂᖅ Sananiq (Crafting)Gwen K. HealeyChapter 4: Thematic and Phenomenological Analysis in Research on Intimate RelationshipsPaul C. Rosenblatt and Elizabeth WielingChapter 5: Sharing Expertise in Appalachia: A Collaborative Feminist Content Analysis of In-Depth Interviews with Older Women Cancer SurvivorsKatherine R. Allen and Karen A. RobertoChapter 6: Revisiting and Remaking the Listening Guide: An Ecological and Ontological Narrativity Approach to Analyzing Fathering NarrativesAndrea DoucetChapter 7: Authenticity in Qualitative Data Analyses: Notes on Racial and Gender Diversity in Team Ethnography of Young Men of ColorKevin Roy, John Hart, and Laura GolojuchChapter 8: What Does This Mean to You? Partnering with Amigas de la Comunidad to Analyze the Housing Conditions of Undocumented Latina ImmigrantsColleen K. Vesely, Bethany L. Letiecq, Rachael Goodman, Marlene Marquez, Liciane Alves, Wendy Lazo, and Roberto MartinezChapter 9: Lost in the Data: Strategies Used to Analyze a Large-Scale Collaboratively-Collected Qualitative Dataset of Low-Income FamiliesKatherine E. Speirs, Colleen K. Vesely, and Kevin RoyChapter 10: Uprooting Grounded Theory: The Messy Reality of Understanding Low-Income Couples’ Cohabitation TransitionsTyler JamisonChapter 11: Charting the Course: Analytic Processes Used in a Study of Residents’ Care Networks in Assisted Living Candace Kemp, Mary M. Ball, and Molly M. Perkins Chapter 12: Using Family-Level Data in Research on Work-Related Travel: A Multi-Tonal ExperienceAnisa Zvonkovic and Andrea SwensonChapter 13: An Ethnographic Analysis of Latino Gay Youth’s Paths to HomelessnessH. Daniel CastellanosSection 2: DialoguesChapter 14: Dialogue about Arts-based ResearchGwen K. Healey, Evonne Miller, and Marcus B. Weaver-HightowerChapter 15: Dialogue about ReflexivityKatherine R. Allen, Bethany L. Letiecq, Karen A. Roberto, Paul C. Rosenblatt, and Elizabeth WielingChapter 16: Dialogue about Qualitative Data Analysis SoftwareTyler Jamison, Candace Kemp, Katherine E. Speirs, Andrea Swenson, and Colleen K. VeselyChapter 17: Dialogue about Data DisplayH. Daniel Castellanos, Mary M. Ball, and Anisa ZvonkovicIndex

"This comprehensive volume brings together key voices within the developmental and family sciences to demystify the process of how exactly one executes qualitative data analysis. Too often descriptions of qualitative data analysis strategies are vague, shrouded in jargon, or limited due to publication restrictions. Clearly, this collection of chapters is more than just a ‘how to’ of data analysis strategies, but also helps readers understand the decisions that are made every step of the way with regard to designing and carrying out qualitative research. Readers have a rare opportunity to learn how researchers respond to real life research conundrums and methodological challenges inherent in qualitative scholarship. I particularly appreciated ‘dialogue’ chapters devoted to critical issues that cut across a range of qualitative approaches such as reflexivity, the use of analytic software, and how to display findings. By tapping into the wisdom and experiences of those who have forged the trail and done the work, How Data Analysis Happens offers useful methodological tools that will help readers execute qualitative studies that are rigorous, thoughtful and wildly creative." - Joyce A. Arditti, Ph.D., Professor of Human Development and Family Science, Virginia Tech, USA"How Qualitative Data Analysis Happens: Moving Beyond "Themes Emerged" pulls back the layers of qualitative research—giving the reader access to often concealed insights into qualitative research methodology. A rarity in our field, this collection of chapters tells the real stories of conducting qualitative methods: the starts and stops, the shifts, the decisions that contradict methodological "guidelines," and the infusion of our humanness into our science. I will use this book as a supplement to my graduate qualitative research class, as it will help students go deeper in their work and normalize the complexity inherent in all stages of qualitative methods." - Megan Haselschwerdt, Ph.D., Department of Child and Family Studies, University of Tennessee, USA