Qualitative Content Analysis
Qualitative Content Analysis (QCA) is a systematic, inductive method for analyzing textual or visual data by identifying and categorizing meaning units into content categories. Developed and formalized by Klaus Krippendorff (1980), QCA can be purely qualitative (inductive, exploratory) or combined with quantitative counting; it analyzes manifest content (explicit, surface meanings) and latent content (underlying, interpretive meanings).
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Citations copied verbatim from the method’s source record. No claim-level verification is inferred from them.
- Krippendorff, K. (1980). Content analysis: An introduction to its methodology. Sage Publications. · URL
- Schreier, M. (2012). Qualitative content analysis in practice. Sage Publications. · URL
- Hsieh, H. F., & Shannon, S. E. (2005). Three approaches to qualitative content analysis. Journal of Nursing Research, 13(4), 203–215. · URL
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