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Qualitative Data Analysis I: Text Analysis 499
TABLE 17.3 (Continued)
Variable Description
Column Code and Variable Values
55 FACTOR3 Is intensity (severity) a factor influencing whether people
use home management or hospital-based care? 1 yes,
0 no
56 HELP1 Type of support given to informant by family or friends:
1 buying medicine, 0 other
.
.
75 SYM1 The informant mentions headache as a symptom: 1 yes,
0 no
.
.
80 SYM14 The informant mentions child has unusual cries as a
symptom: 1 yes, 0 no
81 SYM15 Other—if not one of SYM1 through SYM14: 1 yes, 0
no
91 TREAT11 Did the informant report using pills bought over the counter
as the first treatment resort? 1 yes, 0 no
.
.
96 TREAT21 Second treatment resort: The values are the same as for
TREAT11, column 91
.
.
119 WITCH The informant mentions that witchcraft may be implicated
if patient has malaria: 1 yes, 0 no
120 YESDIAG Does the coder think the informant made the right diagnosis
based on the informant’s stated symptoms? 1 yes, 0
no
121 COST Cost of receiving treatment from private health care
provider in Kenyan shillings, from 0001–9999, 9999
information not available
SOURCE: Data reproduced by permission of the author.
Memoing is a widely used method for recording relations among themes.
In memoing, you continually write down your thoughts about what you’re
reading. These thoughts become information on which to develop theory.
Memoing is taking ‘‘field notes’’ on observations about texts.
Strauss and Corbin discuss three kinds of memos: code notes, theory
notes, andoperational notes (1990:18, 73–74, 109–129, 197–219). Code