Survey Monkey) from “Survey”, audio files from the icon “Audios”, Picture files in the format of BMP, G/F, JPG, TIF and PNG formats from “Pictures” and video files in the format of MP3, WMA, WAV, M4A, MPG, MPE, WMV, AVI, MOV, QT, MP4, 3GP, MTS and M2TS formats from “Videos” icon.įor more clarity, we can divide the type of materials into two broad sections, which are: Microsoft office files) through Documents”, articles such as PDF files from “PDFs”, Survey results (eg. Nvivo allows importing all types of data from the “DATA” toolbar. To import data from external sources into Nvivo follow: Open Nvivo Project>Data (in ribbon) (External Data in case of Nvivo 10) Figure 1: DATA Tab on ribbon for as importing tool for Nvivo Importing data from different types of files in Nvivo This article explores different sources of quantitative and qualitative data that can be analysed with NVivo and steps to import data. On the other hand, secondary data such as literature review is carried out through annual reports (PDF files) of organisations and bibliographical data is extracted from databases like Mendeley and Endnote. written interview transcripts (word documents),.
This data includes information obtained from both primary and secondary sources. This is due to its ability to accept different data types emanating from different sources. Nvivo software is one of the most suitable software for qualitative data analysis.
