The purpose of this study was to analyze the trend of the qualitative research area and the statistical methods in Korean Journal of Sports Management. A trends analyzed researches of questionnaire research method and data analysis method of sports management for content analysis methodology published researches already. The focus studied view of research direction. This study used in 162 researches of the 247 researches published on the Korean Journal of Sport Management during the 1996 to 2003.
For this research, it was arranged to classify a research analysis and method, and area. The research method used quality analysis method and statistical method. The study of sports management analyzed to have a few trends to be changed from quality research to research for statistical method gradually. Study of analysis collected recently quality data and statistical data for questionnaires, and it figured about 30.24 percent a trend to inquiry a research test after pre-test. The topic of research was a case of problem solving generally.
The method of statistical analysis used ANOVA, frequency analysis, confidence test, regression analysis, etc. orderly each researches three kinds of analysis method once. Method of questionnaire analyzed questionnaire kinds showed the most 35 researches(21.60%), study target population sampling and types was random sampling 39 researches(24.07%), confidence analysis was 133 researches(82.09%) of 162 researches each.