The information below is excerpted from the Step-by-Step Guide to Qualitative Coding.
Step 1: Organize Data
The best way to organize your data is to go back to your interview guide. Identify and differentiate between the questions/topics you are trying to answer, and those that were simply included in the interview guide as important, but for the moment, not essential.
Step 2: Finding and Organizing Ideas and Concepts
Identifying salient themes, recurring ideas or language, and patterns of belief that link people and settings together is the most intellectually challenging phase of the analysis and one that can integrate the entire endeavor.
Step 3: Building Over-Arching Themes in the Data
Each of the response categories has one or more associated themes that give a deeper meaning to the data. Different categories can be collapsed under one main over-arching theme.
Figure 16: From Hanson C.S., Ju A., Tong A. (2019). Appraisal of Qualitative Studies. In: Liamputtong P. (ed) Handbook of Research Methods in Health Social Sciences. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978- 981-10-5251-4_119
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