Coding Qualitative Data

What do you do in your initial coding exercise?

• Review all the data.

• Write your initial report.

• Organise your data into categories.

• Trial your survey questions.

Why do we code our data from focus groups and interviews?

• To identify the best contributor to a focus group.

• To write a report.

• To make sense of the data and identify key findings.

• To eliminate mistakes.

Which step comes after the initial coding?

• Final Report coding.

• Line by line coding.

• Reference list coding.

• More data collection.

What do you do in line by line coding?

• Look at every line of data carefully and assign a code.

• Record your codes carefully.

• Compare your data with someone else.

• Double check the accuracy of your data.

After line by line coding, you then undertake....

• Analysis

• Report writing

• Categorisation

• Data review

During the categorisation stage what do I do?

• Make up the categories.

• Group similar codes and ideas together.

• Organise your categories.

• Delete unnecessary data.

After categorisation we do what?

• Come up with new questions.

• Re-interview people

• Eliminate unnecessary data.

• Look for common themes.

Deductive and Inductive coding is used for what kind of data?

• Qualitative Data

• Quantitative Data

What is the purpose of categorisation in data analysis?

• To create new data sets.

• To finalize the report.

• To group similar data points together.

• To eliminate errors in data.

Which coding method is typically used first in qualitative research?

• Selective coding.

• Initial coding.

• Thematic coding.

• Axial coding.