It's the last day of our analysis workshop and it rained for the first time since I've been in Kathmandu. We've spent the whole week analysing the data from 47 'life-story' interviews with child domestic workers in Nepal. We spent the first 2 days developing codes from the data in interviews - which is the first level of analysis, then comes categories, then themes; and we've all got so ensconsed in this process we are now talking in 'codes' to each other. We say things like 'thinking positively gets researcher through to lunch' or 'going to the toilet enables researcher to escape workload'. But on a more serious note, the discussions have been really exciting, I'm learning a lot about Nepali culture, once you start delving into what children are saying you realise that it is all influenced by and imbued with cultural values. Where it was most apparent was when analysis team would come up with a Nepali word and it would take a paragraph to explain it in English...one such word meant 'accepting and tolerating by keeping silent, but in a strengthening way'. I will miss the comradery of the team once I'm back in my little office in Hackney...lots of photos on the Children Unite Facebook Profile if you're interested. Tomorrow I fly home late so will have time to join in with celebrations for Nepali 'Divali'...which should be fun!
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