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technology and computing information and network securityHow is coding done in qualitative research?
Similarly, you may ask, what is coding process in qualitative research?
In qualitative research, coding is “how you define what the data you are analysing are about” (Gibbs, 2007). Coding is a process of identifying a passage in the text or other data items (photograph, image), searching and identifying concepts and finding relations between them.
- Open-Ended Surveys and Questionnaires. Opposite to closed-ended are open-ended surveys and questionnaires.
- 1-on-1 Interviews. One-on-one (or face-to-face) interviews are one of the most common types of data collection methods in qualitative research.
- Focus groups.
- Direct observation.
Accordingly, is coding qualitative or quantitative?
In the social sciences, coding is an analytical process in which data, in both quantitative form (such as questionnaires results) or qualitative form (such as interview transcripts) are categorized to facilitate analysis. One purpose of coding is to transform the data into a form suitable for computer-aided analysis.
Algebraic coding theory is basically divided into two major types of codes: Linear block codes. Convolutional codes.
Linear codes
- code word length.
- total number of valid code words.
- the minimum distance between two valid code words, using mainly the Hamming distance, sometimes also other distances like the Lee distance.