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Qualitative Analysis

Purpose

Differs from the Quantitative Report by reporting on feedback from individuals.  People enter specific feedback into textboxes, and the report extracts this and summarises it.  

Function

Select a report, click the Reports link and select one of the two Qualitative Analysis formats, XHTML or Word:

Once you have done this, you select the date  range and click the format to be displayed - XHTML or Word 2003.  

The report simply summarizes the responses to each question as a bulleted list.  It makes no attempt to interpret the text:  this is left to the reader.  What it does do is provide a keyword-highlighting facility:  you can see that the user has typed in 'practice' here and is being directed to occurrences of the word in the text:

The Collapse option hides those topics which do not contain the keyword: