A multi-stage approach to the coding of data from open-ended questions

• DOI: 10.7748/nr.4.1.81.s9
• Publication Date: 2016-06-10T13:00:58Z
• Authors: Gary Hickey; Cheryl Kipping
• Keywords: 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine; 4. Education

One of the criticisms qualitative research is that processes and procedures data analysis tire often not made explicit ( 1 ). This criticism particularly pertinent to open-ended questions. paper outlines an approach analysing questions using content analysis, making involved. The will also describe how challenge ensuring rigour maintaining diversity subtlety responses, which can easily be lost when attempting quantify data, overcome.