Quantitative Content Analysis Contents

Content analysis refers to a family of procedures for the systematic, replicable analysis of text. In essence it involves the classification of parts of a text through the application of a structured, systematic coding scheme from which conclusions can be drawn about the message content. By clearly specifying the coding and other procedures content analysis is replicable in the sense that other researchers could reproduce the study. Content analysis can be carried out quantitatively but also qualitatively. In this technical supplement we focus on quantitative content analysis; qualitative content analysis is discussed in the technical supplement on qualitative approaches to language analysis.