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Table 1 Example of coding of interview text

From: ‘Disrespectful men, disrespectable women’: Men’s perceptions on heterosexual relationships and premarital sex in a Sri Lankan Free Trade Zone - a qualitative interview study

Data extract

Code*

‘There are those [men] like that [who take responsibility for contraceptives]. There are those who do not too. That is, those who are not planning a life here [in the FTZ] have no need for birth control. There is no need to work here and stay, no? Therefore there are men who feel that it does not matter if she gets into that situation [pregnancy] or not. They do what they want to and even relinquish the job here. They go off. They go to the village. There are those like that’.

Some men do take responsibility for contraceptive use while others do not; they do not care if women get pregnant and are likely to abandon a pregnant woman and the FTZ.

  1. *This code was later part of the theme ‘Divergent masculinities - disrespectful womanizer or respectful partner?’.