3. QLA-COD-003 — Qualitative Coding, Codebook Development and Category Formation

Description:

This Master Prompt would focus on transforming raw qualitative evidence into systematically organized analytical meaning. It would guide researchers through familiarization, meaning-unit identification, initial coding, semantic and latent coding, inductive and deductive approaches, code definition, codebook construction, code refinement, merging and splitting codes, category development and examination of relationships among codes.

Researchers would be guided to maintain traceability between raw evidence → coded segments → codes → categories → higher-order interpretation, while avoiding unsupported coding or themes. This reflects the uploaded literature, where inductive/deductive coding, iterative codebook development, manual coding, independent coding and multi-tier coding structures appear repeatedly.