Analyze data and find out what you learned! The "official" term for this is "coding".

Code your data using the most appropriate method for the type of research you chose to do. Using computers to spit out percentages, develop a few research "reports" - different consumers of research require different ways to consume information! A plain language report might make more sense in a school setting, whereas a full fledged academic paper will carry more weight in the research community.

The coding part of the research project was divided into 4 main stages where youth and adults participated together. First, we came up with a statement that summarized the objective of our research project and the questions we wanted to get answered - a more concrete way of defining the goals we wanted to achieve with our initial research proposal. Our statement was: By going through a research process, we want to find out what kinds of services are available, what they provide, and what kinds of services are missing that Latin Youth would like to have more available in the lower mainland. Also, what are the existing perceptions of youth engagement within the Spanish speaking community? Second, we organized and typed all the information gathered by doing the program scan, interviews, and focus groups. Third , we read all the information and generated common themes. They were issues brought up repeatedly by the people interviewed. Last, we wrote down the description of the categories and conclusions that were put together with a project report. Coding sessions happened mostly at meetings where interactive activities, such as mapping, generated discussion as we categorized the information. Also we had youth going through the info collected individually and suggesting these categories in more informal ways such as highlighting the key words or simply giving their opinion.