Select a location for the cases and assign a case classification to them (or create a new one).

On the Home tab, click Organize > Create as Cases.

(Hold down the SHIFT key to select multiple files).

In List View, select the interview files.

For example-for Occupation, you could add Accountant and Teacher.

If you know some of the attribute values you can add them now (you can easily add additional values later, as needed).

Age could be an integer, if you will give each person's age in years, or text, if you will bracket age ranges (e.g.

Select the data type of the attribute values in the Type field.

Age, Gender or Occupation) and optional description.

Select the case classification in the List View, then on the Home tab click Case Classification > New Attribute.

If creating a new classification, name it and optionally provide a description.

Select to add one of the two predefined case classifications, Organization or Person, (you can modify these if you want) or to create your own new case classification.

Select Case Classifications in the Navigation View, then on the Create tab, Case Classification.

If you have interview transcripts saved separately as files in NVivo (one file per participant), you can follow these steps to set up cases with classification values:Īdd case classifications to the project, to apply to cases when they are added: The approach you take depends on the type of data you are working with.

Import a survey or social media dataset and automatically create and classify cases based on the content.

Import a spreadsheet (called a 'classification sheet' in NVivo) containing respondent names and demographic variables.

Create cases based on the speaker names in a document.

When you create cases from your files the entire content of the file is coded.

Create cases from selected files-this is most useful when the entire file represents a single case (unit of analysis).

The entire content of the file is coded to the case created for it. Create cases as you import files-in the Import Files dialog box, select Create a case for each imported file.NVivo provides a number of quick ways to create cases-for example, you can:

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