I use their (Raven's Eye) transcription service mentioned above. It works well for my needs.

If you don't like them there were a few other options for transcription/analytics back when I was looking. Also, Youtube is free if you upload the files as video, but isn't always accurate and you'll have to use some other software to analyze the output. If you're on a tight budget they are an option, but expect to put in more time correcting mistakes than you will with a paid option.

QCA would require you to have a set of well-defined "conditions' for each case in your data, and you would almost certainly need to do a prior qualitative analysis to determine what those conditions were and how they applied in each case. You could use any of the major qualitative data analysis programs, including NVivo, to do that work, but there is no way around reading and interpreting your data in depth.

That isn't correct. There now are ways around reading and interpreting all your data in depth. You still have to know basically what it says to be able to validate the results but tedious coding is pretty much entirely automated by most of the new software providers. Atlas and NVivo haven't innovated their methods in quite some time and are about a decade behind the curve.

Dear Niles, Fan shi, Morgan

Thanks for your answers.

Dear Fan shi

"Atlas and NVivo haven't innovated their methods in quite some time and are about a decade behind the curve. " This is news. Could you please elaborate on this a bit. People tend to believe that NVivo represents QCA akin to Xerox representing the photocopying industry.

Could you please let me know better, economical options to evaluate interview trasncripts, that is also accepted by good journals. Thanks in advance

Dear Fan shi

"Atlas and NVivo haven't innovated their methods in quite some time and are about a decade behind the curve. " This is news. Could you please elaborate on this a bit. People tend to believe that NVivo represents QCA akin to Xerox representing the photocopying industry.

Could you please let me know better, economical options to evaluate interview trasncripts, that is also accepted by good journals. Thanks in advance

Fan Shi, I'm not sure what you think is not "correct" about my answer. Certainly QCA does require conditions and it is going to take a qualitative analysis of the data to produce those conditions. So I guess you object to the idea that "there is no way around reading and interpreting your data in depth," which I interpret as a proposal to use automated qualitative analysis, AKA text mining. If that is what you mean, I'm happy to respond to that, but if so, then you should also know that you yourself are a bit behind the curve because NVivo now offers at least two versions of text-mining based automated coding.