I need a 2nd and 3rd coder. To generate codes. Categories and themes. Use Atlas.ti. 14 transcribed interviews on health services and the importance of cultural competence in the delivery of services. Do I have an will participants happy to assis and publish together if time permits
First, it is not required that you have multiple coders or calculation of inter-rater reliability in doing qualitative analysis. The sub-field where this is most common is in quantitatively oriented content analysis, where you want that kind of precision because you typically count the codes. So, I recommend that you look at the kinds of journals where you hope to publish and see if those articles routinely report using multiple coders, rather that feeling that this is a requirement.
Second, comparing the work of multiple coders is usually done at the level of the codes themselves, to make sure that there is a consistent labelling of the text. It is much less common to compare the creation of categories, and such comparisons are almost never done with regard to the creation of themes. The work of generating the final summary of the analysis in terms of themes is almost always the responsibility of the main author or of co-authors who have worked together throughout the research process.
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