Facilitating an NHRI Gender Audit 3.2 Analysing document review data Your document review will most likely have resulted in qualitative data (descriptive information usually represented by words). To analyse qualitative data you need to find common themes or categories. Figure 26: Main steps for analysing document review data Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Review Identify common Make the data themes conclusions Step 1: Review the data Look over the data you have collected to: • refamiliarise yourself with it, and • make sure it is referenced correctly including its source, when it was gathered and the context of when it was gathered. 71