Data Analysis
The interviews, written verbatim, were analyzed by a movement between latent and manifest content analysis
[19]. The former was seen as the deep structures in the text; the analysis implied an interpretation of the underlying
meaning. The latter was understood as the superficial structure, the visible and obvious. The interviews
were read through several times to gain an overall picture of the content. Separate words or short phrases conveying
important information were highlighted and noted down in the margin as meaning units—the open coding.
Then the units were cut down into a gigantic jigsaw puzzle in which the “pieces” were grouped and sorted
in subcategories according to content. The subcategories were compared considering similarities and differences.
The condensed meaning units were supposed to belong only to one subcategory that resulted in the formulation
of separate categories. In the last phase the interviews were read through as a whole once again in order to recapitulate
the statements of the informants and to have the context fresh in mind when formulating the result.