Realities Toolkit 15: Using an external agency or individual to transcribe your qualitative data
Hazel Burke, January 2011
Summary
The aim of this toolkit is to help you plan properly for sending your interview/focus group recordings to somebody else for transcribing, and save you time by helping you do this more efficiently.
It covers:
- budgeting for transcribing costs (see our cost calculator spreadsheet too)
- choosing a good transcriber
- managing the administrative side of the transcription process
- improving recording quality for accurate transcripts
- help with formatting transcripts
- ethical considerations, and
- checking your transcript
Using an external agency or individual to transcribe your qualitative data (toolkit opens in new window)
Quick calculator for estimating transcribing costs (spreadsheet opens in new window)
If you are transcribing all or some of your data yourself, see also our toolkit #08: Transcribing your own qualitative data.