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    Coding in-depth semistructured interviews: problems of unitization and intercoder reliability and agreement

    Campbell, J. and Quincy, C and Osserman, Jordan and Pedersen, O.K. (2013) Coding in-depth semistructured interviews: problems of unitization and intercoder reliability and agreement. Sociological Methods & Research 42 (3), pp. 294-320. ISSN 0049-1241.

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    Abstract

    Many social science studies are based on coded in-depth semistructured interview transcripts. But researchers rarely report or discuss coding reliability in this work. Nor is there much literature on the subject for this type of data. This article presents a procedure for developing coding schemes for such data. It involves standardizing the units of text on which coders work and then improving the coding scheme’s discriminant capability (i.e., reducing coding errors) to an acceptable point as indicated by measures of either intercoder reliability or intercoder agreement. This approach is especially useful for situations where a single knowledgeable coder will code all the transcripts once the coding scheme has been established. This approach can also be used with other types of qualitative data and in other circumstances.

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    Item Type: Article
    Keyword(s) / Subject(s): qualitative methods, coding, intercoder reliability, intercoder agreement, interviews
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences
    Depositing User: Administrator
    Date Deposited: 22 Aug 2013 09:33
    Last Modified: 02 Aug 2023 17:07
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/8042

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