CAQDAS is used in psychology, marketing research, ethnography, public health and other social sciences.
The CAQDAS networking project lists the following tools a CAQDAS[2] program should have: In 2019, the Rotterdam Exchange Format Initiative (REFI) launched a new open exchange standard for qualitative data called QDA-XML,[19] however, the Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis (CAQDAS) Network Project had been formally established in 1994.
[2] The aim is to allow users to bring coded qualitative data from one software package to another.
Support was initially adopted by Atlas.ti, QDA Miner, Quirkos and Transana, and has since been implemented into Dedoose, MAXQDA, NVivo and more.
[21] The advantages of using this software include saving time, managing huge amounts of qualitative data, having increased flexibility, having improved validity and auditability of qualitative research, and being freed from manual and clerical tasks.