NVivo and numerical representation

Please be aware that although NVivo can provide numerical representations of your coding, it does not amount to statistics. The figures simply inform you about how much a coding, a word, or a part of an image constitutes of the total text, audio file or image. They should therefore not be used to draw statistical conclusions. If you are interested in conducting a statistical analysis of large amounts of text, you would be well-advised to use R or Python.

The calculation of the coverage rate depends on the file type. In texts, it is calculated based on the number of characters, whereas for images, it is calculated based on the number of pixels that have been coded. You can read more about the coverage rate in other file formats in this tabular overview Links to an external site..