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Table 1 Timeline of events related to data collection and analysis

From: “We and the nurses are now working with one voice”: How community leaders and health committee members describe their role in Sierra Leone’s Ebola response

Nov 2014

Train data collectors

Nov 2014

Conduct pilot testing

Dec 2014

Data collection round 1

• Focus groups discussions

Jan 2015

Data collection round 2

• Focus groups discussions

Jan-Feb 2015

Transcription and translation

Mar 2015

Data analysis: coding

• Conduct inductive and deductive coding based in part on a priori codes (developed from the questionnaire) and open-coding (developed as relevant data emerged from transcripts)

Mar 2015

Data analysis: matrix development

• Collapsing and arranging codes (along with their attendant quotes) across transcripts

Apr 2015

Data analysis: writing analytic summaries

• Synthesis of text across domains of the matrix

Apr 2015

Data analysis: distribution, feedback and discussion of analytic summaries

Apr 2015

Literature review

May 2015

Consensus regarding content of results section