On a related topic, would anyone be willing to share how you deal with
naming your documents that are interviews in your computer databases?
Confidentiality would require you to not name your documents with the
name of the interviewees. If you use a code instead of the person's
name, however, then your list of cases becomes a list of codes and you
would have to keep a separate index connecting names of subjects/
interviewees with the code. As you read and code your documents and
analyze your data, if you have 50+ subjects, it becomes difficult to
remember who the speaker is without going back and forth to your code
list. Are there any rules applying to this issue?
I have wondered if that increases "objectivity" or if it leads the
reader to disconnect pieces of speech from the entire context of the
interview and thus loose meaning.
Dora Acherman
Florida International University
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