3. Inductive coding of text

Inductive coding is an open bottom-up method for describing and analysing your material. 

In this exercise, you will be coding text sections with themes you find during reading. 

How to: 

• Open one of your articles in NVivo by double clicking on the file in the list view. (You will find the articles under “Data”>”Files”.) 
• While reading through the article, create three themes you deem relevant for the analysis: 
  Mark the relevant text section. Right-click on it and choose "Code Selection" > "To New Code..". Choose a name for the code, assign a colour, describe the content of the code, and click “Done”. 

Coding stripes and highlighting

• If you wish to see which codes, you have used in the document, click  “Coding Stripes” on the small menu directly above the PDF. 
• In the coding stripes dropdown menu, choose “All”. Your codes will now show to the right of the document. If you click on a code, all the text coded with the code in question will now be highlighted in the colour you choose for the code or in yellow (default) if you did not assign a colour. 
• If you wish to highlight all text coded within the document, you once again go to the top menu directly above the PDF . Choose the tab “Highlight” and “Coding for Codes or Cases”.

You can find your codes in the menu “Coding”>”Codes”. Double-click a Code to see which text sections you have coded with the particular code.