Miles and Huberman (1994) consider the act of data reduction to occur throughout the entire course of the study. Miles and Huberman (1994) define data reduction as “the process of selecting, focusing, simplifying, abstracting, and transforming the data that appear in written-up field notes or transcriptions” (p. 10). The qualitative data was reduced and became part of the process to inform the reader of the story that was transformed by the data. Miles and Huberman (1994) state, “Data reduction is a form of analysis that sharpens, sorts, focuses, discards, and organizes data in such a way that ‘final’ conclusions can be drawn and verified” (p. 11).