CRIM 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Content Analysis, Unstructured Data, Nvivo
1 Sep 2016
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Chapter (cid:1005)(cid:1006) agency records, content analysis, and secondary data. May be vastly superior to what you could do alone. Any kind of data you don"t collect yourself. E. g. , agency records by federal, provincial or non governmental agencies, schools, prison. Sometimes publicly available, sometimes can get access to proprietary data. Get a clear and complete understanding of exactly how the data were collected secondary data (p. 333) get a clear and complete understanding of exactly how the data were collected advantages & disadvantages. Variables may not be operationalized how you would like - validity problems content analysis. Systematic, objective study of messages and the meaning those messages convey. Examination of social artifacts types of content analysis. New data collected by agency staff units of analysis (ua) for content analysis*** Possible to move from individual to aggregate units of analysis but not the other way around. Uo level at which you collect the data.
