Departmental Papers (ASC)
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of this Version
December 2004
Publication Source
Quality and Quantity
Volume
38
Issue
6
Start Page
787
Last Page
800
DOI
10.1007/s11135-004-8107-7
Abstract
This paper reports a new tool for assessing the reliability of text interpretations heretofore unavailable to qualitative research. It responds to a combination of two challenges, the problem of assessing the reliability of multiple interpretations -- a solution to this problem was anticipated earlier (Krippendorff, 1992) but not fully developed -- and the problem of identifying units of analysis within a continuum of text and similar representations (Krippendorff, 1995). The paper sketches the family of α-coefficients, which this paper extends, and then describes its new arrival. A computational example is included in the Appendix.
Copyright/Permission Statement
The final publication is available at www.springerlink.com
Keywords
reliability, qualitative, text analysis, unitizing, multiple interpretations, krippendorff’s alpha
Recommended Citation
Krippendorff, K. (2004). Measuring the Reliability of Qualitative Text Analysis Data. Quality and Quantity, 38 (6), 787-800. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-004-8107-7
Date Posted: 22 January 2008
This document has been peer reviewed.