How do I show how common a qualitative theme was?
Say how many participants contributed to it and whether it was contested, and present variation and disconfirming cases rather than only the cleanest quote. Some methods accept counts and some resist them, so match it to your stated approach, but the reader always needs a sense of weight.
This comes up on Interpreting and Reporting Results, where it is answered in the context of the work itself.
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