Content analysis

How it is used

It can involve counts or qualitative interpretation; explain the coding rules.

Example sentences

1. The content analysis classified newspaper reports by their treatment of unemployment.

   Explicit categories organize the reports for comparison.

2. We revised the categories after a trial content analysis of twenty letters.

   A trial revealed weaknesses in the category system.

Common collocations

• qualitative content analysis
• conduct content analysis

Related terms

• codingIn qualitative research, the process of labeling parts of the data, such as sentences in interviews, with short codes that describe their meaning.
• coding schemeA structured set of categories or labels used to classify data during qualitative or mixed-method analysis.

More terms: Research Design

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• research question
• hypothesis
• methodology
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• case study
• carry out
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