Using an external agency or individual to transcribe your qualitative data

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