2.2.2. Data Analysis and Synthesis

The research teams took notes during interviews and FGDs and wrote memos summarizing the key findings of each interview. Teams met daily in-person or online to discuss new data, emerging themes, and questions to probe further on. Upon completion of data collection in a study area, the teams rapidly sorted the data, key insights, and emerging themes into text-based tables, categorized according to the domains of the analytical frameworks. This step helped to identify key barriers and facilitators to vaccination in that community. Through this process, the research team selected three key issues to explore further during the local co-creation workshops, with the goals of strengthening participants' empathy for caregivers by highlighting the challenges they face, and identifying common barriers that had the potential to be resolved through local solutions. The research team developed 'personas'—short stories centered around a caregivers' experiences based on the synthesized data—to illustrate each selected challenge at the co-creation workshop, while ensuring the confidentiality of the research participants. Following all data collection and workshops, country research teams synthesized all analyzed data into reports which informed the development of the project's activity workplan.
