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Coding approaches
Basic Procedures:
Ask a consistent and specific set of questions
of all the data: what is happening here? what
is important?
Interrogate all your data systematically
Exercise
This exercise provides an illustration of coding based on two
interview transcripts, both concerned with people taking
exercise and keeping fit.
1. Print off the two interview transcripts:
Interview_transcript1
Interview_transcript2
2. Read through them and identify areas where they overlap
and where they are different, think about issues such as
motivation, barriers, incentives and so on.
Exercise (continued)
3. Question the data, for example look at the role of family
and friends, ask what differences gender makes and so
on. You may want to make some notes.
4. Now print off and look at the document called
coded interviews which will give you some
idea of what coding can look like.
You should bear in mind while coding must be rigorous, how
you actually do it varies from researcher to researcher.
References
A useful guide can be found here:
Foss, S.K., and Waters, W. (2003) Coding & Analysis of Qualitative
Data http://www.abdsurvivalguide.com/News/020603.htm
Accessed 1th July 2011.
Richards, L. (2009 2nd edition) Handling Qualitative Data. Sage:
London . See Chapter 5: Coding
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Author
Kevin Meethan
Institute
Plymouth University
Title
Date Created
23 February 2011
Educational Level
M Level
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