Hello,

I am currently working with a large sample of interviews from different countries with answers in the form of 21 statements for each participant, statements afterwards categorized by importance by the participant. I have different numbers of interviews in each country and I am trying to look at the overall importance participants give to a certain statement but at the same time compare male versus female responses.
For example, I have categories such as resources needed, tasks, moral values, etc. (these are the nodes I used to code the information). Then I have the importance assigned by each participant to a category, from 1 to 9, 9 being the most important. And finally, I have the demographics, what women said and what men said.

What I’d ideally like to pull out (I’m using NVivo 9) is a chart that has the 1 to 9 importance on the Y-axis, and the nodes on the X-axis, and for each node on this axis show two bars rating the importance, one for women and one for men.

So far I managed to create a chart using frequencies, that includes all nodes and considers 1 node to have a 100% percent frequency, then divided between men and women, so for example node ‘moral values’ was used 70% of times by men and 30% of times by women. This is not the best result, because I have a smaller number of women than of men and I would like to know the overall frequency the node shows up among all women, and compare what nodes were most frequently used by them.

I hope the above makes sense. I would be happy to get the info out in other formats too, such as matrices or graphs, I just need some help in organizing it so I can pull out what I need.

Many thanks,
Ioana