Krippendorff’s Alpha is calculated during the development of the codebook and in the analysis-phase. It is important to get your inter coder reliability in order before you start coding your sample. There are two things that can cause Krippendorff’s Alpha (KALPHA) to be low. The first, and most important reason is when there is a […]
How do I calculate Krippendorff’s Alpha? 30 March 2015
There is a manual available on the website of the Amsterdam Content Analysis Lab, written by dr. Knut de Swert. This manual explains step by step how to perform a reliability analysis with Krippendorff’s Alpha in SPSS. You can find the manual here: http://www.polcomm.org/amsterdam-content-analysis-lab/manuals/ First, though, you need to restructure your data in SPSS. You […]