[Andreia Nunes]

Hi everyone! My name is Andreia Nunes and I am doing my Phd in sociology, investigating about gender stereotypes in Portuguese contemporary children’s literature. I’ve been working on my analysis grid and my categories and I have around 100 books to analyse! I am wondering about the best program to use to insert data! Anyone working on something similar? Any suggestions? I was thinking of using SPSS… Well, let me know your tips 🙂 Thank you!

[Meredith Hale]

This sounds like a great project. Good programs depend a little on how your data is formatted, but I’d recommend seeing if OpenRefine might be a good fit for your project – https://openrefine.org/download.html

[Andreia Nunes]

Hi Meredith!

Thank you so much 🙂 I have chosen some categories I would like to analyze like physical characteristics (hair, beard), adjectives, professions, household tasks, etc. to see how male/female characters are represented. But they are still very open – to see what I will find in the books. Some will repeat itself so I use numbers as well. For example: this book has 10 characters: 6 male, 4 female, male can be firefighter (2x), female are teachers (1x) and mother (3x).

That program you mention does seem great to messy data! Thank you for the tip 🙂 In this case the data is not messy yet 😀

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