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Qualitative evidence and public submissions
Public submissions, interviews and community feedback can be analysed systematically if every coded point keeps its link to the person or document it came from. The method is the same at any scale: one controlled intake, a shared coding frame, a record of each claim with its quote and location, and a response or findings table built from that record.
These guides show how to do it for consultations, community-led monitoring and interview-based research. We build data systems where every claim traces back to its source, and we can run them for you.
Guides
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How to analyse public submissions without losing the source
Analyse public submissions with stable IDs, a tested codebook and a framework matrix, so every theme leads back to the submissions behind it.
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What a public consultation response matrix should include
The fields a consultation response matrix needs to link every public comment to its response, decision, action and source.
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Community-led monitoring in South Africa: feedback to evidence
How community-led monitoring works in South Africa, and the evidence workflow that turns public feedback into action and report-back.
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How to turn interviews and case studies into findings
A working method for turning interview transcripts and case studies into findings that survive review, with a source behind every claim.