Text and content analysis

GESIS advises researchers on the coding and analysis of open-ended questions and other textual data in the social sciences. Both qualitative and quantitative text and content analysis are covered either with or without computer support.

Main topics are:

• Open-ended questions
• Content analysis
• Development of classification and coding schemes
• Definition of content analytical dictionaries
• Automatic coding
• Use of Software in qualitative and quantitative content analysis
• Reliability and validity
• Other text analysis approaches (for example, co-occurrence analysis or text mining)

For many years and as part of its consultation and service activities GESIS has been offering a program for automatic coding based on a user-developed content analytical dictionary (TEXTPACK).