What Can be Coded?
Here are some examples of different types of codes.
What Can be Coded:
Behaviors, specific acts
Examples:
Examples:
Seeking reassurance, Bragging.
What Can be Coded:
Events—short once in a lifetime events or things people have done that are often told as a story.
Examples:
Examples:
Wedding day, day moved out of home for university, starting first job
What Can be Coded:
Activities—these are of a longer duration, involve other people within a particular setting
Examples:
Examples:
Going clubbing, attending a night course, conservation work.
What Can be Coded:
Strategies, practice or tactics
Examples:
Examples:
Being nasty to get dumped, staying late at work to get promotion
What Can be Coded:
States—general conditions experienced by people or found in organizations
Examples:
Examples:
Hopelessness “I’ll never meet anyone better at my age,” settling for someone who is not really suitable
What Can be Coded:
Participation—adaptation to a new setting or involvement
Examples:
Examples:
About new neighbors “In my new house I have to keep my music down at night as the neighbors have young children”.
What Can be Coded:
Relationships or interaction
Examples:
Examples:
Seeing family “Now my sister lives in the next road she visits more and we’ve become much closer.”
What Can be Coded:
Conditions or constraints
Examples:
Examples:
Lose of job before financial difficulties, moving away before lost contact with old friends
What Can be Coded:
Consequences
Examples:
Examples:
Confidence gets dates, positive attitude attracts opportunities
What Can be Coded:
Settings—the entire context of the events under study
Examples:
Examples:
University, work place, housing estate
What Can be Coded:
Reflexive—researcher’s role in the process, how intervention generated the data
Examples:
Examples:
Probing question “How did you feel when he said that?”
Source: Table adapted from Lewins, A., Taylor, C. & Gibbs, G. 2005)