Qualitative Coding for beginners - 4 things you HAVE TO KNOW but NOBODY will tell you about coding 

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wow, thank you Karen ❤️ I am so glad that you found this useful, and thank you for your generosity. I hope that my other videos will be useful too, especially my recent series "from codes to themes" ! I worked hard on it and tried to make it the most practical guide that there is regarding the whole process

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Thank you Coby, I'm glad that you're finding these videos useful. Arts based research, wow. Ever since I learned about it, I've been fascinated by this approach. In the "researchers after work" series (the interview series), I talked to Dr Patricia Leavy who is an expert in arts based research - hope you watched that one! I also recently had a pleasure to be involved in a study in which art workshops were a big part of it, and I experienced the power of this approach first hand, this was amazing. Regarding the tutorials, you can find all the information here drkriukow.com/qualitative-research-tutorials/

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​@@qualitativeresearcher Sir I need your help in deciding about the data analysis software. I am comfortable with Atlas-ti but it is installed in my university's system and due to COVID situation, university is still closed. That is why I have to get a software which will do the similar job but it has to be reasonable. I am a MacBook user. I have listed down few softwares but I need your suggestion that which will be better for analysing 81 interviews (transcriptions): 1. Delve, 2. Dedoose, 3. Dovetail, 4. Tamsys PS: I am in middle of your course, which I have bought on Udemy. Please help and guide me on this, I shall be highly obliged by your early response. Thank You

@@YatiChoudhary for qualitative data, I recommend NVivo, and if not - MAXQDA. I have not use any of the ones you have listed

@@qualitativeresearcher Sir NVivo is pricy software that is the only reason I can not use it as of now. Yes I will explore MAXQDA, thank you so much for your suggestion.

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The detailed approach to coding (doesnt have to be literally line by line, but still detailed) works for any size of dataset - the idea is not to do this for all your data but for some time initially, until you feel that you have generated lots of codes that start to give you an idea for a direction in which this is going. there is often a point at which you feel this way - and it is through this initial approach that you can, in fact, get a feel of maybe what themes there may be. Based on this , you can refine your initial coding, to minimize the number of codes and organize the coding framework before continuing with the rest of the data. On the other hand, your data is not interview data, where everything that is being said has a potential to be something important and relevant. I believe you don't have to code literally everything, and with the same level of detail as in interview data, because in your study it is clear from teh start what is relevant and what is not, at least to some extent (what is relevant are all statements on Afghan women), which already makes the above task less detailed and a bit easier. The overall main rule, I would say, is to decide for yourself, based on your data, how detailed this needs to be and what you need to code

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You need to have each transcript in a separate file. Otherwise NVivo will treat all transcripts as one participant, and you don't want that

NVivo all day long! I know you may be anxious about having to learn new software but: 1) it really is not that difficult to learn the basics of NVivo (and the basics are all you need) 2) you will save Plenty of time this way. If you don't use it, trust me you will waste much more time in the long run Regarding your point about just analysing the data and not worrying about making mistakes - absolutely, this is the main thing I try to communicate in both the videos and the private tutorials - just do it, try to use the common sense, focus on answering your research questions. Do not let the guidelines and complex step by step approaches restrict you! you will find plenty of useful videos on this channel and also do not hesitate to ask me questions whenever in doubt

@@qualitativeresearcher Thank you so much for your reply! I didn't think you would answer, so I really appreciated it.

Whilst I imagine this is what you would be Mostly focused on, there is no rule that says what exactly your codes should be about - meaning, that if there is something else that you, for some reason, believe to be relevant, you can code it too, and possibly later use in your final thematic framework

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you don't :) Firstly, not the best idea to cite a RU-vid video, and secondly the whole point I was trying to make is that this is supposed to be a common sense process, not an official framework. I suggest that you follow your common sense when you code, but then if you need to refer to anyone, just refer to someone who talks about thematic analysis in general. What I discuss in the video is not a particular method but rather how to approach the task of coding

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hi Angela, I do have quite a few videos about coding and creating themes. Although I do not talk about systematic review in particular, these principles will still apply

descriptive writing is the essence of qualitative findings, and you specifically DO NOT want to make claims about relationships, influences, etc, between variables - this is just not something that qualitative research can address

I am not familiar with Atlas ti, but I'm guessing (because this is the case with other software) that it would not be advisable to merge all transcripts into 1, because later when you code you want to see how many people said something or expressed a given view, and for this you need to have their transcripts separated. If you have 1 document, you will not be able to see how many participants said something because for the software, all these transcripts will be 1 file

@@qualitativeresearcher Thank you Dr Kriukow. I'm assuming it's very similar to the software you're using. Thank you for the insights. I'm really enjoying your videos. It's very helpful.

Do you mean export it from NVivo? To export the coding framework there, right click on the blank space around the codes and choose to "export codebook". Same thing about graphs or any other visual outputs - most of the times you just need to right click and then choose the option that you need

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Column 1 - theme name, Column 2 how many participants discussed it. This should be good enough

although you have obviously simplified what I said here, yes, you pretty much nailed it

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They probably aren't :) Better to have codes that are long than codes that are really short :)