ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews and displays selected applications of qualitative coding methods onto quantitative and mixed data generated from mixed methods research studies. A code in qualitative analysis is most often a word or short phrase that symbolically assigns a summative, salient, essence-capturing, and/or evocative attribute for a portion of narrative or visual data. The data can consist of qualitative empirical materials such as interview transcripts, participant observation field notes, photographs, and so on, but the chapter focuses on the qualitative coding of quantitative data in their various forms. The qualitative coding of quantitative data representations will be termed qualitizing. One of the most common critiques of selected mixed methods research studies is that the quantitative and qualitative data sets are analyzed separately, albeit well, but without a true mixing for rich meta-inferencing.
