From: Gender and active travel: a qualitative data synthesis informed by machine learning
Leximancer terminology | Description | Common qualitative thematic analysis terminology | Description |
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Term | Words in the text that have been examined for frequency of co-occurrence with other words and synonyms from the thesaurus and are weighted or scored according to evidence that a concept is present in a sentence. | Content code | Basic unit of meaning. |
Concept | Collections of words or ‘terms’ that travel together within the text. They are parent terms that have been identified through semantic and relational word extraction that share similar meaning and/or space within the text. | Sub-category | Descriptive family of codes |
Theme | Emergent concept groups that are highly connected, parent concepts. | Category | Defining or conceptual labels for family of codes. |
 |  | Theme | Overarching category based on interpretive, theoretical, conceptual insight of researcher. |
‘Important’ | The hierarchy of ‘importance’ indicates concept connectedness. | Meaningful, interpretive, important | Basis for theoretical understanding of the data; particularly pertinent or revealing in relation to the research question. |