focus groups + classification sheets + nvivo 12

Depending on how your transcripts are set up, you may find that doing a search for the name of each person and asking NVivo return the results including the surrounding paragraph gathers the responses for you. Your next step would be to go through each focus group and code the responses from each individual at the case for that individual.Īs you do not have headings in your documents you either have to go through each focus group and code the relevant responses to the cases yourself or you could try using the text search query to help you. By the sounds of it you are almost there in that you have set up the cases and attributes. It seems l am have missed a vital piece of coding which would connect the Cases with the women's names in the focus group documents.įor your query to return the appropriate results you need to ensure that the data from each person is coded at that person's case. For instance, say l wanted to know what Attribute value 'Single' women said about Free Node 'Health'. Somehow, NVivo is not able to find any query resulsts. I didn't do use auto coding, or used any of the Headings for coding. I have went into the Classification folder and set up relevant Attributes, and went into Nodes folder and set up Cases, 32 cases a case for each woman milly molly mandy, and recorded their attributes. The transcripts which l imported the right hand side as a the womens' names and then tab spacing to record their comments. I want to tell the NVivo 7 l have many participants (32 women) each of who l want identify as individuals for e.g.

l have imported 8 focus group interviews into the documents folder.

Focus groups + classification sheets + nvivo 12