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part of the interpretive work in gaining a sense of the whole body of data,
all interviews and all stories. Only after the core themes were established
was selective coding applied using the computer program NVivo 8 for the
writing up of the findings. This program proved especially helpful with
managing the volume of data (150 interviews: 30 group and 120 individual
interviews) in that it enabled specific searches using more than one code/
theme simultaneously and according to the perspectives (e.g. fathers).
Using the GTM meant that the successive stages of research involved
the concurrent collection and analysis of data informing the next stage
or constant comparative analysis (Glaser & Strauss, 1967). Key grounded
themes initially generated from the data were elaborated and modified as
incoming data from the next stages were meticulously compared against
them. The aim of this iterative research design was to refine themes and
ideas, not to increase the size of the original sample (Charmaz, 2000) and
led to the modification of the interview questions as the study progressed.
After all of the interview data had been coded, a comparative analysis was
conducted. During this stage of the analysis some codes were merged, while
others emerged, were subdivided and/or redefined, which proved to be an
organic process. After the comparative analysis was completed, all the data
fitted into the theoretical framework of the main themes of family time and
own time. Theoretical saturation was deemed achieved when the addition
of new data fitted into themes already devised (Morse, 1995).
The analytical framework used combines the multiple perspectives of
generation, gender and group dynamics, with three phases of time (pre-,
on- and post-holiday) and the two dominant themes of family time and
own time that resulted from the GTM process (see Figure 5.1). Together
these form a cube with three axes: perspectives, temporality and themes
Figure 5.1 Analytical framework for whole-family experiential dimensions
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