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Overall Reliability:  .79
The overall reliability for the Workplace Ethnography data is .79.  This number represents the average correlation between codings of a given book by independent coders.  Twenty-seven different books (cases) were coded by multiple coders from a sample size of 204 (13%).  All 27 were coded at least twice and five were coded by a third independent reviewer.

ITEM by ITEM Reliability:
Item by item reliability analysis was also undertaken.  These reliabilities are specific to each variable and are reported in the linked "ITEM by ITEM reliability" file above.  Each number represents the percent agreement on a common answer among multiple codings for a given book, averaged across all cases with multiple codings.


* This material is based on work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant 0112434.  Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the Principal Investigator and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.