Exam 10: Analyzing Content: Research Using Secondary, Historical, and Comparative Data, and Content Analysis

Discuss the similarities and differences between content analysis and secondary data analysis.

What is a content analysis?

What are the differences between case oriented and temporal research.

Method of agreement is used to establish ______.

Content analysis is similar to all of the following EXCEPT ______.

Which of the following countries has been at the forefront in efforts to promote and warehouse qualitative data?

It is impossible for a researcher to use random samples in content analysis.

A researcher studies the frequency and commonalities of burglaries in her state by examining crime data taken from the state police database from the last six years. This study is an example of ______.

Tests of reliability and validity are readily performed in historical research projects due to the availability of multiple measures of the same concepts.

Discuss four common methodological questions that a researcher conducting a secondary data analysis should be able to answer.

Data quality is a concern with secondary data.

Which of the following is an example of comparative research?

Which of the following is an unobtrusive method of research?

Identfiy a research question that could be answered using content analysis.

Which of the following is an accurate summary of Archer and Gartner's research on war and postwar homicides?

There is no qualitative data available on the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) website.

Which of the following is possible with content analysis?

Secondary data analysis was first used in the 1990s.

The quality of secondary data analysis rests on which of the following?

Content analysis typically uses fixed-choice responses.