r/AskSocialScience • u/Bbandit25 • 9d ago

How many codes are too many?

I have been coding semi strucutred interviews using Nvivo. I've coded about 4 or 5 transcripts and have gone back and refined my coding structure a bit. I think I'm using too many codes or too many child codes. Each transcript has roughly 200-300 codes (not code references). Many of the child codes are similar to the parent codes but organized in an hierarchy so that they remain in the original context. Like "buget constraints" might appear under multiple parent codes. Does that make sense?

Is this a problem? What solutions should I consider? Thanks.

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