Who coded the data?
The data was then hand-coded by highlighting sections of text and assigning codes to them, MySQL was used to do this. To code 600 interviews took approximately 2400 hours of work. Some of the themes and categories were set by six staff and interns who were a part of the research team. Additional categories and themes were set by the coders, who were paid members of our community with experience of homelessness. Coding was also done by students and workers from a program run by the American Associated of Retired Persons (AARP) program. More detailed information on this is included in our research manual (http://www.sistersoftheroad.org/elists/?p=subscribe&id=2)on page 35.
