An graduate student in urban planning

Source text:

Descriptive codes are similar to manifest codes: they reflect themes or patterns that are obvious on the surface or are stated directly by research subjects

Source:

Hay, Iain (2010) Qualitative Research Methods in Human Geography. Chapter 14: Coding Qualitative Data, pp. 281-294. Victoria, Australia: Oxford University Press.

Writer’s text:

With descriptive codes, it is able to answer what, where, and how’ types of questions with demographic and geographic features (Hay, 2010).

Writer’s comment:

Here it says how to code the interview. …So here I just totally transferred the meaning he says … to more I feel the simple way to describe what descriptive codes are. So here is “manifest codes reflect themes or patterns that are obvious on the surface”. I feel it’s complicated to understand. So I put it as “with this approach, it is able to answer what, where, and how’ types of questions”. And the meaning of this whole sentence, I feel it’s very close to what Hay says…. Cause I have put this meaning into the context of my whole paper [which] is trying to answer the data information that I collected from the event.