Reply To: Topic Discussion 2: Data Management Process

[Soe Htike]

I have completed several steps in managing data, such as selecting methods for data collection, conducting interviews and surveys to collect quantitative data, recording qualitative data and translating it for thematic analysis, and encoding quantitative data into statistical software for analysis.
However, there are still some critical steps that I have yet to address, including ensuring that data cleaning and validation procedures are comprehensive, establishing robust protocols for data storage and backup, and thoroughly documenting procedures for data processing and analysis. It is important to implement these steps to ensure data integrity, reliability, and reproducibility, enhancing the project’s quality and rigor. Doing so would also improve the credibility of the findings and make it easier for future research to build upon this dataset.