In following years, she worked with the CAQDAS Project in England (1994 – 1996), where she taught classes on The Ethnograph and Nud*ist (today NVivo). Her initial contact with CAQDAS tools was from 1992 to 1994, as she was employed at Qualis Research in the USA. Susanne Friese started working with computer software for qualitative data analysis in 1992. The first one was on how to conduct a Grounded Theory analysis with ATLAS.ti (Friese, 2016). This paper is the second in a series that describes how a qualitative data analysis approach can be implemented using computerized qualitative data analysis software. Before presenting the implementation, the different approaches of TCA are presented, and the individual analysis phases are explained. The implementation is described by the CAQDAS expert Susanne Friese. It is about job satisfaction and the dissatisfaction of professionals working in the Family Health System in Brazil.
The sample project that is used here for illustration purposes was provided by Jacks Soratto and Denise Pires. This paper shows how the phases of a selected Thematic Content Analysis (TCA) can be realized in a software-aided analysis. And thirdly, one needs to know how the individual methodological steps can be implemented. Then one needs to be familiar with the features that the software offers. To work with CAQDAS, one must first know which requirements the chosen analysis approach has. This often leads to frustration when using an analysis package ((Weber 2014), up to the point where the analysis is given up and researchers return to paper and pencil.
Even though nowadays, the use of Computer-Aided Qualitative Data Analysis Software (CAQDAS) is widespread, usually in the books and papers that describe an approach, it is not explained how to implement the analysis using software it is assumed that this is self-explanatory. There are many different methods in qualitative research and also many ways to approach the analysis of qualitative data.
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