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John F Hall

First implementation of MULT RESPONSE

When was MULT RESPONSE first implemented in SPSS? Was it in 1989 as per the FM?

John F Hall MA (Cantab) Dip Ed (Dunelm)

[Retired academic survey researcher]

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Website: Journeys in Survey Research

Course: Survey Analysis Workshop (SPSS)

Research: Subjective Social Indicators (Quality of Life)

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Mike

Re: First implementation of MULT RESPONSE

Probably not 1989 but the exact date might depend upon whether MR was

available as a procedure in beta test form (i.e., available outside of SPSS before

it was added to the set of procedures) or officially a part of SPSS. Evidence

for the former point appears to be supported by the following citation:

Hohlen M: SPSS Procedure MULT RESPONSE: Frequency
and Crosstabulation Tables for Multiple Response Variables.
Document No. 431. Evanston, IL: Vogelback Computing Center,
Northwestern University (mimeographed), 1977.

One probably has to look at the computer science literature (both

published and "gray", that is, locally printed working papers/docs)

to get a better idea of MR's development. However, I think that

the impetus for developing MR might have been the following paper

by Yates (1975); see the following on Jstor.org

Yates, F. (1975). The Design of Computer Programs for Survey Analysis --
A Contrast between the Rothamsted General Survey Program (RGSP)
and SPSS. Biometrics, 31(2), 573-584. doi:10.2307/2529438

Yates does not mention MR but the need for such a procedure is

implicit in the article. Hohlen's manuscript and probably others

from Northwestern's computer center and other academic computer

centers will have to be examined to determined when MR went from

a locally developed procedure to one that goes into wide release.

HTH.

-Mike Palij

New York University

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On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 5:13 AM, John F Hall <[hidden email]> wrote:

When was MULT RESPONSE first implemented in SPSS? Was it in 1989 as per the FM?
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John F Hall MA (Cantab) Dip Ed (Dunelm)
[Retired academic survey researcher]

Email:          [hidden email]
Website:     Journeys in Survey Research
Course:       Survey Analysis Workshop (SPSS)
Research:   Subjective Social Indicators (Quality of Life)

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Anthony Babinec

Re: First implementation of MULT RESPONSE

My old SPSS Update 7-9 manual says that MULT RESPONSE

was added in Release 7 or 8 of SPSS. The version 9 manual

came out in 1981. I am speculating a bit, but my impression

is that Tex Hull authored the program. He is the co-founder

often listed as C. Hadlai Hull on the various SPSS manuals.

At a later point, multiple response functionality was also

implemented in the Tables module.

Anthony J. Babinec

Co-Author, Data Analysis with IBM SPSS Statistics. 2017:Packt.

Harry V. Roberts Statistical Advocate of the Year Award Committee,

American Statistical Association

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John F Hall

Re: First implementation of MULT RESPONSE

Thanks guys. I needed to know because I've been writing an account of the restoration of the SPSS files for a 1973 survey and wasn't quite sure. I can now confidently write that my then IT wizard, Jim Ring, wrote something in Fortran to produce multiple response tables long before they were available via SPSS. I vaguely remember it was actually one of the requests made by the SSRC Survey Unit at the international conference I organised in April 1974 at the London School of Economics and Political Science Social Science Data and the new SPSS.

Details of the survey referred to are on my page:

http://surveyresearch.weebly.com/trinians-survey.html

If anyone would like to see a draft of the paper, let me know.

Attitudes and Opinions of Senior Girls: an exercise in SPSS and survey forensics

Abstract

This paper is based on the detailed log kept by the author during restoration in 2004 of the original SPSS saved file for a 1973 survey of girls in senior forms at St Paul's Girls' School. It describes the coding of the raw data from the completed questionnaires and gives a step-by-step account of the retrieval and restoration of the original 1973 SPSS setup files used to capture (from 80-column punched cards) process and analyse the data and the updating and conversion of their syntax for use with SPSS for Windows. A new version of the saved file (compatible with SPSS for Windows) was uploaded by UKDA in 2012, but the variable names and labels remain in UPPER CASE, no missing values are declared and the measurement levels of all variables except two are set as Nominal. A new version has been prepared with modified variable names, variable and value labels changed to Mixed Case, measurement levels and missing values correctly specified and a selection of scores derived from attitude scales.

John F Hall MA (Cantab) Dip Ed (Dunelm)

[Retired academic survey researcher]

Email: [hidden email]

Website: Journeys in Survey Research

Course: Survey Analysis Workshop (SPSS)

Research: Subjective Social Indicators (Quality of Life)

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Subject: Re: First implementation of MULT RESPONSE

My old SPSS Update 7-9 manual says that MULT RESPONSE

was added in Release 7 or 8 of SPSS. The version 9 manual

came out in 1981. I am speculating a bit, but my impression

is that Tex Hull authored the program. He is the co-founder

often listed as C. Hadlai Hull on the various SPSS manuals.

At a later point, multiple response functionality was also

implemented in the Tables module.

Anthony J. Babinec

Co-Author, Data Analysis with IBM SPSS Statistics. 2017:Packt.

Harry V. Roberts Statistical Advocate of the Year Award Committee,

American Statistical Association

[hidden email]