NVivo is a qualitative analysis application which stores, organises and categorises data, helping researchers visualise, analyse, and gain richer insights into their research.

Academics and researchers who use NVivo require their transcripts to be NVivo compatible.

Pacific Transcription offers four different types of NVivo formatting for interview and focus group transcripts.  If you would like your documents formatted in accordance with one of these styles, please make a note at the time you upload your audio file.

A guide to each formatting style is given below.

This format is only compatible with versions NVivo8 and later. All speaker turns are time-coded and formatted for an easy import into NVivo. Once imported, the transcript will automatically synchronise with the original video or audio recording of the interview or focus group, meaning you can watch the video and see the transcript scrolling in sync, or click on any turn in the transcript to bring up the relevant section in the video.

Having simultaneous access to audio/video and the transcript allows you to ensure you have not missed anything qualitatively, such as emotion or sarcasm. Each turn is attributed to a speaker, making coding easier and more efficient.

Pacific Transcription has offered this format for several years, and we have found that it is particularly popular with researchers conducting focus groups or semi-structured/unstructured interviews. A 25% surcharge applies for all transcripts in this format.

Our NVivo Headings format is expanding into a more flexible, individualised process. We would be happy to hear what you hope to get out of your specially formatted transcripts, and adapt our templates to suit your needs.

If you have a list of interview questions which are followed in your audio files, we can format the transcripts to enable autocoding of nodes for each question and within that, for the facilitator and interviewee. This eliminates an enormous amount of work for you. You can analyse the range of interviewee responses to particular questions easily and efficiently. This format incurs a 15% surcharge, and refer to it as ‘NVivo Headings Questions’.

Should you have less structured interviews, interviewee and facilitator can be transcibed in the same headings style, enabling separate nodes on the same hierarchal level when imported. This is a time-saver considering the coding you will no longer have to do manually, and useful for identifying the environment of certain concepts within nodes. This format incurs a 10% surcharge, and refer to it as ‘NVivo Headings Simple’.

Having your files coded for NVivo as they are transcribed will save you time better spent analysing the resulting data. Please contact us to discuss your NVivo requirements, so we can decide what the best fit is for you.

This simplified format enables you to import the transcript into NVivo as text, and is compatible with all versions of NVivo (as well as NUD*IST and XSIGHT). It will not automatically code speakers differently in NVivo, or organise the interview according the interview questions, however there is no surcharge to have your transcripts provided in this format.

Click here to download the brochure Pacific Transcription and NVivo – A Guide to NVivo Compatible Transcripts, containing this information.

Pacific Transcription are able to convert your existing transcripts into an NVivo compatible format. The below table outlines what items we would need from you to do this, as well as the associated cost.