In community-based nursing, analyzing multiple components of the specific community are a key factor to successfully develop a plan of action. Community analysis consists of categorizing, summarization, comparison, and inference elaboration. Each phase has a specific purpose for collecting and analyzing the data. Once these four phases have been addressed, concrete information can be reviewed for possible needs of intervention.

Categorization consists of organizing the initial characteristics, such as the demographics, geographic, socioeconomic, and health resources and services (Anderson & McFarlane, 2019). These core components in