NVivo
NVivo is a tool for qualitative data analysis. You need a licence key to use NVivo.
Facts
Tool for qualitative data analysis
What is NVivo?
NVivo is a software tool used for qualitative analysis of text, audio, video and image data. It helps you organise, code and analyse large amounts of non-numerical data such as interviews, questionnaires, documents or observations.
NVivo supports a systematic and transparent approach to qualitative data. Through coding, you can make sense of your material and identify patterns and connections.
Qualitative data types
NVivo supports both unstructured data, such as text, images and audio and semi-structured data, such as surveys and emails.
Terms of use
The software may not be used for paid research projects, commissioned reports, administrative work or any situation involving a supplier–client relationship.
When is NVivo useful?
NVivo is especially helpful when you want to identify themes, patterns and relationships in complex data and ensure a systematic, transparent analysis process in qualitative studies. It is relevant when working with interviews, written testimonies, documentary images and audio material, and netnography.
About the NVivo licence key
How to get a licence key for NVivo
Send an email from your CBS account to nvivo@cbs.dk with the subject line “NVivo license request”.
You will receive an email with a download link and your licence key.
Once the licence is activated, no further login is needed.
Renewing your licence
The licence key changes every year on 1 January. To get the new key, simply repeat the same procedure.
If your licence expires temporarily, your data will not be affected.
Help using NVivo
Install on Mac
If you are working on a Mac and get an unknown developer error, open your Mac settings and add whitelist NVivo.
Download issues
If you experience problems downloading or using NVivo, send an email to nvivo@cbs.dk.
Video guides
Getting started
Strengthen your academic credibility
In a qualitative project, you make a number of methodological choices that must be documented to ensure the transparency and credibility of your results.
NVivo makes it possible to document choices such as:
- Data selection
- Coding and categories
- Delimitations