It is up to each team to choose and adapt the indicators that suit their circumstances or create new indicators that respond to their specific situation. Those participating in this phase of the research involving analysis of data will be trained. Each team member involved in the analysis phase should then be able to follow the instructions below, and eventually fill in the information required for each indicator used. To summarize and analyze information from the surveys you need to calculate the total or average number for certain questions. A simple method for these calculations is presented here.
Manual analysis involves some basic mathematic operations which are explained below.
Most questions are simple and many have similar structures, so all that follows are examples of typical questions. If computers and statistical packages are available to the teams, they can be used instead. Calculating the Total Numbers One easy way of calculating the total number of responses to each question is by using a tally sheet. Tallies are strokes or marks made on a sheet of paper to represent the scores associated with a particular question. Each stroke stands for one response.