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Table 3: Distribution of interviews by typeof stakeholdeRStakeholdersFrequency PercentageCivil Society Organizations 12 26.1State Sector Representatives 7 15.2Medical/ Health Providers 9 19.6Miscellaneous 18 39.1(e.g. educators, religious leaders,employers and media workers)Total 46 100.0Secondary data was also gathered from differentlibraries, resource centers and the Internet, andincluded news clippings, press releases, books andmagazines. Secondary information on the experiencesof LBT women, laws on sexual orientationand gender identity, available services and interventionsand pro and anti-LBT women activities wereused to provide context and to enrich the analysis.The country team formed a seven -member groupresponsible for the processing and analysis of thecollected data. This team took part in an onlinetraining on the processing of the LBT womeninterviews, which was conducted by representativesfrom IGLHRC and consultants from Strength inNumbers (SiNGC) on March 12, 2012. The trainingprovided capacity building for the qualitativecoding of data (including the creation of transcriptsummaries, the collection of common themes, andthe definition of key qualitative terms and concepts).Common themes for the Philippine datawere collected from the available transcripts andsent to IGLHRC for consolidation.A total of 46 transcripts were sent to IGLHRCand SiNGC for data processing. Atlas.ti softwarewas used to process the transcripts (see Table 4).Six interviews (three lesbians and three transgenderwomen) were not processed because the datawas not translated. The country team decidedto exclude seven interviews that did not adhereto the data-collection protocol. The answers ofrespondents from four interviews were deemed tohave been heavily influenced by the interviewersand other people who were present. As statedearlier, three interviews were either not from LBTwomen or were not one-on-one interviews.Two members of the country team took part inan online training on the processing and analysisof data related to stakeholder interviews onApril 26, 2012. The training was held to equipthe team with the necessary skills to undertakestakeholder data analysis. A total of 46 stakeholderinterviews (see Table 3) were processedand included in the analysis.Lastly, members of the country team participatedin the 2nd Asia Activist Institute, convened byIGLHRC on June 1-3, 2012, at Antipolo City,Philippines. Activists from Japan, Malaysia, SriLanka, Pakistan and Philippines attended theInstitute. The Institute provided an orientationon the coded data and demonstrated differentdata analysis techniques in preparation for thereport-writing phase of the project.Table 4: Frequency of interviews by data processing status and groupGroups processed Not Processed Not included TotalBisexual Women 5 0 0 5Lesbian 10 3 4 17Transgender Women 31 3 0 34Others 0 0 3 3Total 46 6 7 5934VIOLENCE: Through the Lens of Lesbians, Bisexual Women and Transgender People in Asia