In vivo coding

How it is used

Preserve meaningful participant phrases when selecting labels.

Example sentences

1. Through in vivo coding, we retained the phrase always on call as a category label.

   The label comes from the participant's wording.

2. Our in vivo coding captured local expressions that the initial codebook missed.

   Participant language adds locally meaningful distinctions.

Common collocations

• use in vivo coding
• in vivo coding process

Related terms

• codingIn qualitative research, the process of labeling parts of the data, such as sentences in interviews, with short codes that describe their meaning.
• codebookA document that lists variable names, codes, categories, or themes and explains what each one means in a dataset or analysis.

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