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Axial coding is the process of relating categories to their subcategories. Anselm Strauss and Juliet Corbin used this term in Basics of Qualitative Research as one of the data analysis techniques by which grounded theory can be performed. The essence of axial coding is to identify some central characteristic or phenomenon (the axis) around which differences in properties or dimensions exist. Axial coding is therefore a process of reassembling or disaggregating data in a way that draws attention to the relationships between and within categories.

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