Policy and Value: A Case Study of Local Authority Energy Management and Investment

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Figure 3.2 Coding Frame for Interview Data derived from Typical EMM.. The coding is used to categorise respondent responses by matching them to the description given.

3.3.3.6 Coding and Coding Analysis of the Interviews To sort and analyse the codings, each coding and associated comment made in the Word document for an interview was copied into a line of a worksheet along with the interview number and comment number. A hierarchical sorting by EMM topic, then by level of governance, and finally by level of attainment was made. This analysis method eased the location of similar comments in the whole set of interviews allowing all likecoded comments to be collated into findings. To sort categories that had large numbers of codings, a second sort of the codings spreadsheet was made, to give appropriate subcategories to further simplify collation of the findings regarding similar topic points (collating similar or dissimilar responses to the points). The interview findings are presented as a text summary aiming to accurately reflect respondent comments within the seven EMM coding category headings. The brief coding comments served only as a location and sorting mechanism. 47

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