Data analysis in mixed-method research Strategies for the integration of qualitative and quantitative data and results

This article discusses data analysis in mixed methods approaches. The challenge of integration during the stage of analysis has recently become a main point of the discourse on mixed methods that for more than a decade had been centered on topics of research design and compatibility of paradigms. The article focuses on key aspects of integration strategies as well as on points of the integration, which depend largely on the research design of the project. Ten different integration strategies in three areas are presented in detail, namely result-based, data-based and sequence-oriented integration strategies. Joint displays, which jointly present data and/or results of the qualitative and the quantitative research strands a particularly important.