Open Ended Coding
Open ended coding, also known as verbatim coding is an extremely skilled area of market research projects which has potential of generating massive volume of valuable information and insight into the market. This is a bonus factor of open ended coding outsourcing which is not possible in case of close ended coding system. We are even aware of the fact that open-ended coding and response structures can never be generalized and are highly case sensitive. Awareness of these factors makes Market Quotient’s services incomparable. To transform raw data into intelligent data, open ended coding integrates open ended responses and segregates them into separate group in a planned manner. This entire process demands meticulous planning and implementation of integrated processes.
We provide expert survey formatting services to compile and produce cleaned data after validating, editing and open end coding using tools including SPSS, Quantum, Win Cross, Excel or Access or any other database and analysis software as needed. Our expert knowledge of coding in Ascribe and internal automated software ensure both manual and automatic processing.
Our coding expertise spans across multiple industries that range from technology to ad testing to CPG. We understand and code open–ended responses (verbatim) with ease and accuracy, sticking to the standards of our clients.
Our coding solution includes- first mentions, multiple mentions, verbatim aggregations and brand list coding.
What makes Market Quotient a perfect choice?
- Specialized panel to interpret and code each verbatim response separately
- Specially designed in-house automatic process to speed up the task
- Experienced professionals with years of knowledge in coding
- In-depth analysis of customer responses
- Drawing logical insights from the research
- Creation of multitude of open ended codes in a number of languages through a single source
Languages we code in:
- English
- Arabic
- Bengali
- Chinese
- French
- German
- Hindi
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Portuguese
- Russian
- Spanish
- Turkish
- Urdu
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FAQ on Open Ended Coding
Where respondents can write whatever they like are called open-ended questions. Here a response is known as a verbatim. ‘Coding’ or ‘tagging’ each response with one or more codes helps capture what the response is about, and in turn, summarise the results of the entire survey effectively.
Open-ended questions allow respondents to include more information, including their feelings, attitudes and understanding of the subject. While closed-ended questions do not allow the respondent to explain that they do not understand the question or do not have an opinion on the issue.
Open-ended questions cut down on two types of response error and questions here allow respondents to include more information including feelings, attitudes, and their understanding of the subject.
Without changing the words, Verbatim is defined as an exact repetition. In other words, when you quote someone exactly without changing anything, that is termed as verbatim.
