The relative analysis of hits for particular subjects. How often is the word "crime" being mentioned in the Central Russian press together with the financial crisis?

Let’s suppose you’d like to analyze the frequency of mentioning to the word "crime" in connection with the financial crisis in the Russian Central press.

Step 1. Login

On the home page of www.integrumworld.com enter your login and password. Then click the button  “Sign in”. You will find yourself on the page with the list of the services available. Choose Russian or English language from the list.

Step 2. Entry into the service “Comparative and relative statistics”

Choose Relative statistics on the opening page. The service “Relative statistics” is used for studying the detailed structure of object mentioning in the press and is able to reveal the dependence of mentioning of one object on another.

Step 3. A new query group composing

Choose ADD in the field QUERY GROUP in the second drop-down list and press OK. Name a new query group, for example кризис/преступность, and press OK.

Press ADD A QUERY PAIR and enter (кризис и преступность!п)/п in the field QUERY 1, кризис– in the field QUERY 2. By the second query all the publications about crisis will be found. By the first query all the documents, in which the word "crisis" is mentioned together with the the word "crime", will be found. The operator !п serves to find all the related words of "преступность". The query, placed into the brackets with the element !п after the brackets, ensures that these words will be found in one sentence.

Then name a query pair, for instance кризис и преступность, choose the color and press OK.

Step 4. Choosing the date range and interval

Specify the date range and interval, 26.10.2008 – 26.04.2009 with an interval monthly

Choose absolute or relative scale, form of results viewing (line, line with markers, columns, columns 3D).

Mark the search area, in our case СМИ: Центральная пресса.

Step 5. Viewing the results

Click SEARCH and the results will be ready in a moment. The following graph shows that the largest ammount of publications on crime problems alongside with the financial crisis was observed in the end of January 2009, probably due to the increase in unemployment and crime level.

If you’d like to get a report in different formats, you can use the functions Excel report, Text report, Html report at the bottom of the interface. The results in the form of tables will open on separate pages.

The query groups in the service Relative Statistics are automatically saved and can be added and renamed in further work.