Data Transcription
Concerning the transcription, there are a few considerations:
- Is your transcription partial or full? It is verbatim; in Chinese or English?
- It is helpful to include initial utterances of your participants and develop your own transcription notes
- Whispering and pauses (may indicate that the topic is sensitive)
- Lengthy pauses in answering a question could indicate potential disagreement
- Leave wide margin when using computer programs (for note taking purpose)
- Always include the date and details of the interview and the interview context (and also who did the coding if it is a group work)
- Use a meaningful filename for effective documentation
- You should first try to transcribe everything you recorded before conducting analysis