Guidelines for Establishing Reliability When Coding Narrative Data

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“You Never Become Fully Independent”: Family Roles and Independence in First-Generation College Students (2018, methodology): “Given that the data stem from semistructured interviews, the researchers used percent agreement for its usefulness in extracting the specific subthemes from the larger narrative (Syed & Nelson, 2015).”
Applying the Master Narrative Framework to Gender Identity Development in Emerging Adulthood (2017, methodology): “Coders checked 20% of their codes with each other to prevent coder drift and discussed difficult cases with the trained graduate student to reach consensus (Syed & Nelson, 2015).”
Beyond a coefficient: an interactive process for achieving inter-rater consistency in qualitative coding (2020, background): “, 2019); and (b) qualitative reports to be evaluated ‘in terms of their own logic of inquiry’ (Levitt et al., 2018: 27–28; Syed and Nelson, 2015).”