The Configuration Table is a Mixed Methods tool that shows you at a glance how frequently a set of codes appears in a document.
To create a new Configuration Table, go to Mixed Methods > Configuration Table.
This will open a dialog window. You can pull up to 10 codes from the “Code System” into this window via Drag & Drop. You can also insert your activated codes in this window by clicking the button Paste activated codes. If you have activated more than ten codes only the first ten will be inserted in the Code System. You can delete one or more codes with the button Delete code(s).
Selecting codes for the Configuration Table
You can restrict the evaluation to the documents you have activated with the option Only for activated documents.
Click OK to view the result of the evaluation. It is made up of two results tables: the Configuration Table and the Configuration Table – detail view.
In this table the columns contain the codes you have chosen as well as two additional columns containing “Frequency” and “Percent.” Every row contains one possible combination of codes.
Note: A combination of codes that does not occur will not be displayed in the table.
For example, a results table for the combination of three major global problems could look something like this:
An example for a Configuration Table
Looking at this table, you can see that two documents exist which contain the first code “Scarcity of resources” and the code “Egoism.” There is one document with the code “War” and none of the other two codes and another document containing the codes “Scarcity of resources” and “War.” There is also a document containing all three codes.
The column “Frequency” tells you how many of the evaluated documents contain a certain combination. The sum row also tells you how many documents were evaluated – in the example shown it was five documents.
In the top right corner you see the number of combinations that actually exist in your documents and – in brackets – the number of all possible combinations. In the example above it says 4(8) which means there are four rows for the existing four combinations. And – because we evaluated three codes – mathematically, there are 23 = 8 possible combinations.
Note: In the configuration table it does not matter how often a code was assigned in a document. The table only shows you if a certain code was assigned in any of the documents at all.
The table is automatically sorted by the frequency. You can also sort it by a different column by clicking a column header. You can also adjust the order of the columns via Drag & Drop.
Tip: The Configuration Table is interactive. When you double-click on a cell containing a blue square, all of the corresponding coded segments will appear in the Retrieved Segments window.
If you click on the Statistic 
symbol, a frequency table in which all existing code
combinations and their frequencies are listed. In the <no codes> row you
can see the number of analyzed documents in which none of the selected codes
occur.
The second results table lists all evaluated documents and shows whether the selected codes appear in these documents or not. So this table corresponds to the (binarized) Code Matrix Browser, only that you can also sort it by columns.
The table has as many rows as documents were included in the analysis. The first two columns contain the document group and the name of the document. Next to these columns you see the columns for the selected codes. The column on the far right gives you the sum of the selected codes that appear in the respective document – regardless of how often those codes appears in the document.
The following screenshot shows an example of the detail view table:
Example for a Configuration Table
Looking at this table we see that, in the document “B01 Tyler,” the codes “Scarcity of resources” and “War” appear. In the document “B02 Maria” only the code “War” appears. All three codes appear in the “B03 Jennifer” document. In “B04 Michael” and “B05 Garnett” both “Scarcity of resources” and “Egoism” appear.
The table is automatically sorted in order of the “Document System.” You can adjust the order by clicking the header of a column. You can also adjust the order of the columns via Drag & Drop.
Tip: The detailled view of the Configuration Table is interactive. Double-clicking on a row activates the document in this row as well as all analyzed codes which occur in the document. The corresponding coded segments will be displayed in the Retrieved Segments window.