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Learn about open, axial, and selective coding with data from interviews with incarcerated women in Belize Central Prison
This piece provides a narrative, a worksheet, and a dataset to help students learn Straussian coding at the open, axial, and selective levels (Strauss & Corbin, 1998). Collected by the authors, Whiteacre and Miller, and their undergraduate students, the authors utilize oral histories from incarcerated women in Belize Central Prison (located in Hattiville, Belize) to examine what these interviewees feel it is like to be a woman living within the country of Belize. While the question did not refer to a particular time period or location, most women chose to focus on what life was like outside of the prison for women-including themselves-within the country. Here, the authors share selected quotes from their conversations with ten of the women they interviewed. The data exemplar is accompanied by a teaching guide and a student guide for completing this exercise. The goal is for students to learn that qualitative data analysis can move beyond open coding to also include axial and selective coding through a series of systematic, guided steps.