Coding and Different Coding Procedures

Question 1

What is coding in relation to qualitative research?

Answer 1

The identification of topics, similarities and differences that are revealed through the narratives of the participants and interpreted by the researcher.

Question 2

What does coding enable the researcher to do?

Answer 2

Enable the researcher to understand the world from the participants point of view

Question 3

What are the five steps for coding?

Answer 3

1. Prepare and organise data - printing and compiling notes and material and labeling to help analyse results
2. Review and explore the data - reading data a couple of times to get a feeling of what it contains
3. Create initial codes - using idea charts, sticky notes, pointers to relate to your results
4. Review those codes and revise
   or combine them into themes - identify recurring themes, language, opinions and beliefs
5. Present themes in a cohesive manner - consider audience, the purpose of study and content should be included to best tell story of your data

Question 4

What are two types of coding procedures?

Answer 4

1. Deductive coding - creating a codebook as a reference guide for the coding process and is established before data collection begins in current field of study
2. Inductive coding - know nothing about research topic and perform heuristic and exploratory research. Don’t have a codebook and build on data from scratch.

Question 5

What does CAQDAS stand for?

Answer 5

Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software

Question 6

List 7 ways which Qualitative Data Analysis Software may assist the researcher during qualitative data analysis process:

Answer 6

1. Organise qualitative data
2. Manage qualitative data
3. Create memos identifying initial thoughts and feelings about interview itself.
4. Assign codes to qualitative data
5. Combine and assemble codes under a category or theme
6. Generate word frequency searches
7. Create mind maps to organise thoughts