Qualitative Data analysis Week 13 Kang Thematic Coding

Qualitative Data analysis Week 13, Kang

Thematic Coding Analysis • Is presented here as a generic approach to the analysis of qualitative data. • It reports experiences, meanings and the reality of participants, or as a constructionist method, which examines the ways in which events, realities, meanings and experiences are the effects of a range of discourses operating within society.

Coding • Is how you define what the data you are analyzing are about. It involves identifying and recording one or more passages of text or other data items such as the pairs. • Incidents, segments, units, data-bits, or chunks. • See

Phases of thematic coding analysis • Box 17. 4 1. Familarizing yourself with your data 2. Generating initial codes. 3. Identifying themes 4. Constructing thematic networks.

Techniques for identifying themes • Box 17. 7 • Repetitions • Indigenours categories • Metaphors and analogies • Transitions • Similarities and differences • Linguistic connectors • Missing data • Theory-related material.

Data analysis in grounded theory studies 1. Find conceptual categories in the data 2. Find relationships between these categories 3. Conceptualize and account for these relationships ghough finding core categories. • Open coding to find the categories • Axial coding to interconnect them • Selective coding to establish the core category or categories.