Using the Comprehensive Framework

How do you use the Comprehensive Framework?

The Comprehensive Framework uses Provalis’ QDA Miner program to organize the framework and serve as a reader for the user to easily search and browse the framework’s database of studies and reports. The reader has a user interface very similar to Microsoft applications that most users will be very familiar with.

Downloading and Installing the Comprehensive Framework

1)   Download and install the QDA Free Data Miner Reader. (located under the "Free QDA Miner Reader" Tab.  Using Firefox of Chrome to download recommended)

2)   Download the 100716_CFW.WPZ data file. If you are using the full version of QDA Miner, download this data file: 100706_CFW_full.zip

The framework was recently updated.  This is the most recent database as of 7/16/10.  Please check back for updates.

Opening the Comprehensive Framework

• Open the QDA Miner program and select the “Open an existing project” button.
• The reader will open two types of QDA Miner files: .wpz or .wpj files. Locate and select the Comprehensive Framework Database.wpz and click the open button.

Using the Comprehensive Framework

• The upper left scroll box sorts each report as a “case” in QDA Miner. The box immediately below contains the bibliographic details for the report
• The lower left scroll box contains both tracks for users to obtain information from the reports.
• The far right of the QDA viewer screen brackets the text relevant to the relevant issue area or key nuclear policy issue

Searching the Comprehensive Framework

• The Text Retrieval tool searches for specific text patterns in documents.   Complex search patterns may be performed using Boolean operators.  This search can be performed on all documents in a project or restricted to specific ones or some coded segments.
• The Coding Frequency tool allows one to obtain a list of all codes in the current codebook along with their description and various statistics, such as frequency, the number of cases in which they are found, and the total number of words in the associated text segments.  Users can use this tool to create bar charts and pie charts from those statistics.
• The Coding Retrieval tool lists all text segments associated with some codes or with specific patterns of codes.  Complex search patterns may include criteria such as proximity, overlapping, inclusion, sequential relationships, etc.
• Users can create a report of search hits, which can be saved in a number of formats, printed, copied, pasted and used in other applications.  The table can also be directly exported to MS Word or Excel.