Web Survey Bibliography
Assume one has open-ended questions in a survey and seriously wants to analyze the answers to these questions. Now text analysis might be applied. This talk discusses a number of choices to be made when a thematic text analysis is to be applied. It starts with requirements to be posed to the open-ended questions themselves and sketches choices in the development of a category system. Here the coding comes immediately into view. Coding can be performed from an instrumental or a representational perspective. In the first the coding is performed from the point of view of the investigator, it can be performed in a run of a computer program. In the second the point of view of the respondent is acknowledged. Now the computer can be used as a management tool, but the coding itself must be performed by a human coder. The choice for one of these methods depends on what the investigator is looking for and has consequences for the way how to proceed. When the representational way of coding is applied also questions about intercoder reliability must be posed.
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Web survey bibliography - Conference on Optimal Coding of Open-Ended Survey Data, 2008 (8)
- CAQDAS, Secondary Analysis and the Coding of Survey Data; 2008; Fielding, N.
- Machines that Learn how to Code Open-Ended Survey Data: Underlying Principles, Experimental Data, and...; 2008; Sebastiani, F.
- Computer coding of 1992 ANES Like/Dislike and MIP responses; 2008; Fan, D. P.
- CATA (Computer Aided Text Analysis) Options for the Coding of Open-Ended Survey Data; 2008; Skalski, P.
- Classifying Open Occupation Descriptions in the Current Population Survey; 2008; Conrad, F. G., Couper, M. P.
- Coding Responses Generated by Open-Ended Questions: Meaning Matching or Meaning Inference?; 2008; Potter, Ji.
- Open-ended questions and text analysis; 2008; Popping, R.
- Coding Verbal Data - What to Optimize?; 2008; Krippendorff, K.