2022-11-04 - Special Meeting Agenda Item 1 - Attachment 2 - Consultation Report

Analysis methodology
The community were invited to provide their individual feedback by completing the online survey and providing a detailed written submission to the project email
address.

To ensure the feedback shared through these activities was accurately captured and reported, a combination of quantitative and qualitative data analysis methods
were used.

Type                                       Method            Description

Quantitative                               General           The data from the online survey was analysed and used to prepare graphs describing the participant
                                                             responses to each quantitative survey question.
Quantitative analysis was used to
report on responses to the survey
questions and show how different           Correlational     To understand how different demographic groups respond to different questions.
demographic groups responded to            analysis
different questions.                                         Correlational analysis was used to compare these responses to key demographic questions such as:

                                                             • The suburb participants lived in
                                                             • Age
                                                             • Current living arrangements.


Qualitative                                Sentiment         Sentiment analysis is a method for identifying emotions and attitudes towards a topic / issue. The
                                           analysis          open-ended survey responses were analysed to identify whether they expressed a positive, negative
Through the written submissions and                          or neutral sentiment towards the prompting question.
the open-ended questions in the
survey, participants were able to freely                     • For example, people were asked to describe their experience living in Noosa Shire during the
express their thoughts and ideas.                              housing crisis. Responses that described this experience using positive words/sentences were
These responses were analysed using                            coded as having a positive sentiment.
two qualitative analysis methods.
                                           Thematic          Thematic analysis is a method for identifying and reporting on repeated patterns in a data set. The
                                           analysis          written submissions and open-ended survey questions were analysed to identify key themes raised in
                                                             the written submissions and open-ended questions.



 17