After several years of using and refining the method, both in projects with relatively few interviews and in those with more than 100, I believe that the method is efficient when there are four or more interviews. Systematic manual coding ensures that all the content is coded, not just words or terms that are extracted from the text. All text is coded, and the codes correspond with headings in the final document. The method produces a flexible Word document of interview data separated into logical chapters and subchapters. A new method, using Microsoft Word and Excel, has been developed. Computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software is too advanced and sophisticated when all we want is to sort and structure the text. Applied social science projects that involve many interviews produce a vast amount of data or text that is difficult t o structure and analyze systematically.
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