Over 1,800 individual public meeting comments (inputs) and 204 response letters were received in response to our asking for your input about the preliminary Assessment questions.  The analysis process we conducted is called Content Analysis.  Content Analysis seeks to capture the your issues or concerns about a particular preliminary question or category subject area, and your suggestions for improvements.  We capture your concerns in full – that is, word for word, the best sentences or paragraphs that best explain the essence of a particular statement or emotion.  We capture your concern in “full-text”, in order to eliminate as much bias as possible.

The five category areas define the basic subject areas for the analysis.  The preliminary assessment questions are arranged under an appropriate category.  We assigned a letter-abbreviation code to each category and a number-abbreviation to each question. We also created a category for comments not directly attributable to an existing subject category, such as suggestions regarding the entire assessment process or data management concerns.