MAXQDA 2024

Coding:

• The act of transforming raw data into workable order.

• In coding, you look for patterns. You are creating manageable and relevant categories for yourself.

Codes in MAXQDA:

• Can consist of one or more letters, and can go up until 63 characters. 
• Can be assigned a color. This can be useful in visualizing your code system easily. For example, if all your codes that have to do with gender are yellow, you can look at a document and see this easily.
• Can also have subcodes

Some suggestions for coding in MAXQDA:

• Code more than one word or phrase, enough that you have some context when you retrieve coded segments.

To code with a new code:

• Highlight the text you want to code and then either:
  • click on the code with a new code button at the top of the Document Browser Window.

• Right click on the text and choose With New Code from the context menu.

• The new code box will appear, where you will write in the new code name. You can also choose a color for your code and add a code memo.

• Click Ok. 
• You now have coded with a new code. Daycare is a new code in the document open in the Document Browser.

• This code also appears in the Code System at the top.
• The number next to the code lets you know how many times the code has been used in your project.

• Use the New Code button at the top of the Code System window to create a new code

• The new code box will pop up, and you can enter the information. 

To code with an existing code:

• Highlight the text you want to code.
• Drag the highlighted text into the Code System window onto the desired code. (You can also drag a code into the text you have highlighted.)
• Once the text is dragged onto the code, you will see the code in the Document Browser next to the highlighted text.

To create a subcode, you can drag a new code on top of an existing code.

You can also create a subcode inside the code system. Hover your cursor over a code, and click the + button.

The new code box will appear. Write in the name of the subcode. Click OK:

• Draw a box inside the image to code that area.  

• Drag and drop the box into an existing code or create a new code.

• Go to the Code System window.
• Right click on Codes at the top of the system.
• Click Sort in the context menu, then choose to sort by frequency or by name.

To delete one code from a document in the Document Browser:

• Go to instance of the code you wish to delete.
• Right click on the code to open the context menu.
• Click Delete on the context menu.

• Click OK on the confirmation box to delete the code. (Only that one instance of that code will be deleted.)

To delete a code from the Code System (deleting all instances of the code in all your documents):

• Hover your mouse over the code and click the X that appears.
• Click OK on the confirmation box to delete. This removes the code from the Code System and all documents.