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Create a prompt for a provisional qualitative codebook with definitions, inclusion boundaries, overlap rules, and examples grounded in supplied excerpts.

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About this prompt

Qualitative coding works better when researchers can explain why a passage belongs in one category rather than another. Specify the unit of analysis and whether overlapping codes are allowed; otherwise a sentence, a participant's whole answer, and a recurring theme may be treated interchangeably.

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