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In Step 7, the researcher uses statistical and other techniques to analyze what the data say in order to answer the research question. Imagine that you have 100 interviews from residents of Hector’s favela, plus a notebook full of field observation notes from “hanging out” with the youth there. What do you do with the data? Social researchers use multiple techniques to analyze data, but whatever techniques they use, they look for patterns in the data and then use theories and findings from past research on the topic to make sense of those patterns.