Usage of Software Packages R and RQDA in a Qualitative-Quantitative Content Analysis of Verdicts of Polish Constitutional Tribunal

Abstract

The paper describes utilization of R statistical software with RQDA CAQDA package in a mixed qualitative-quantitative triangulated content analysis with free coding, intercoder reliability analysis, and statistical significance analysis, performed on a sample of justifications of verdicts of Polish Constitutional Tribunal, issued between 1986 and 2009. It presents the most important features of software used, assumptions of the study, its methodology and procedures of data analyses, as well as epistemic questions which arose in the course of its execution.

Keywords

• CAQDA
• RQDA
• R (software)
• content analysis
• intercoder reliability