Sample coding: Interview transcript (Holiday traditions)

HOLIDAY TRADITIONS ¹

Step 1: Pre-coding considerations

Research question: How do holiday traditions vary across Spanish-speaking countries?

Concepts to measure: Stringency of traditions (Deontic), gender roles and authority (interaction among Attribute and Deontic)

IG Level of Expressiveness: Core with Logico overlay

Data collection: Primary data Semi-structured interviews

Data analysis: Statistical analysis, frequency counts

Step 2: Identify Institutional Statements

- [ ] Review the text and ignore all non-institutional statements (e.g., interviewer questions, headings, subheadings, etc.)

Interview excerpt

Holiday traditions (Spain)

XINT: Do you participate in any rituals or ceremonies before or after starting the meal?

_XRSP001: We are not very strict at home about the dishes we eat during holidays. However, there are some essential ones we usually consume. These indispensable dishes appear mostly during Christmas or Easter holidays, although the majority of my family is not Christian. _ These are the classics for Christmas Eve. For the appetizer we take some cold meats such as pork ham, hard sausage or different kinds of cheese. We also have seafood sometimes, shrimp or prawns. Once on the table, the main and special dish is usually some baked fish, like sea bass, hake or whiting. We also have a bowl of our traditional Cocido, sometimes with a splash of cognac, and a salad with escarole and pomegranate. Some of the typical sweets are marzipan, nougat and Polvorones. On Easter holidays we always have Potaje and torrijas.

- [ ] Identify all segments of text containing information relevant to answering the research question(s)

We are not very strict at home about the dishes we eat during holidays. However, there are some essential ones we usually consume. These indispensable dishes appear mostly during Christmas or Easter holidays, although the majority of my family is not Christian.

- [ ] Identify and/or tag the Attributes/Constituted Entities and Aims/Constitutive Functions within the identified text segments. This will aid in the identification of atomic institutional statements.

These are the classics for Christmas Eve. For the appetizer we take some cold meats such as pork ham, hard sausage or different kinds of cheese. We also have seafood sometimes, shrimp or prawns. Once on the table, the main and special dish is usually some baked fish, like sea bass, hake or whiting. We also have a bowl of our traditional Cocido, sometimes with a splash of cognac, and a salad with escarole and pomegranate. Some of the typical sweets are marzipan, nougat and Polvorones. On Easter holidays we always have Potaje and torrijas.

• Create a list of those Attributes/Constituted Entities, Aims/Constitutive Functions

• Assign "labels" to create a uniform terminology for synonymous terms (e.g., the label "Parties" is assigned to any references to "member states", "COP", "Governments", etc., in an international treaty forum)

• Group similar coded statements together based on their rule typology (e.g., payoff rules, aggregation rules) or by their contribution to a particular decision-making context (e.g., monitoring, compliance), or by any other important context (e.g., design principles, stages of the policy process, etc.)

• Consider creating a taxonomy or classification of key contexts useful for semantic annotations. For example, any statements outlining the decision-making authority of an actor could be semantically annotated as "authority".

[!FOOTNOTES]

¹ The interview excerpts utilized in this sample coding were based on IRB-exempt, non-research-based conversations with individuals designed to generate information that can help populate the sample section of this Wiki. The conversations did not involve vulnerable populations, and no sensitive topics or other information were discussed that could put participants at risk.