May be identified at a "manifest level"(Directly observable in the info) or the latent level (underlying the info) generated inductively from raw information (Hume?) or deductively from theory and prior research (Godel?) compilation of such codes is called a codebook... (Post structuralist?)
The method has widespread use yet not much has been written on technique. It has typically been passed from experienced professional to professional in training like the motto of a secret society...
Thematic annalysis is a translator from those speacking the langiuage of qualitative analysis to those speaking the language of quantitative anlyisis (hence claims to do a similar thing to Checklands SSM)
Boyatzis R . Transforming qualitative info 1998
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