Frequencies for MRSETS

[John F Hall]

I’ve just been working on a subset of variables from the 2008 GSS (NORC) used in Sweet and Grace-Martin. 

 

See: http://surveyresearch.weebly.com/sweet-and-grace-martin.html

 

This was partly to familiarise myself with the data and partly to provide a commentary on my approach to new data sets (as feedback to the authors and also as a guide to students).  I feel a complete plonker, but I’ve defined an MRSET for the NORC GSS 2008 data set, but can’t find a way to get frequencies from it.  I’d already done it with MULT RESP.  Am I barking up the wrong tree?

 

mult resp groups proabort 'Pro-abortion when ...'

            (abany abdefect abhlth abnomore abpoor abrape (1))

            /freq proabort.

 

proabort Frequencies
		Responses		Percent of Cases
		N	Percent
Pro-abortion when ...a	ABORTION IF WOMAN WANTS FOR ANY REASON	550	11.5%	45.7%
	STRONG CHANCE OF SERIOUS DEFECT	952	20.0%	79.1%
	WOMANS HEALTH SERIOUSLY ENDANGERED	1146	24.1%	95.3%
	MARRIED--WANTS NO MORE CHILDREN	579	12.2%	48.1%
	LOW INCOME--CANT AFFORD MORE CHILDREN	556	11.7%	46.2%
	PREGNANT AS RESULT OF RAPE	982	20.6%	81.6%
Total		4765	100.0%	396.1%
a. Dichotomy group tabulated at value 1.

 

* Define Multiple Response Sets.

MRSETS

  /MDGROUP NAME=$abortpro LABEL='Yes when ...' CATEGORYLABELS=VARLABELS VARIABLES=ABANY ABDEFECT

    ABHLTH ABNOMORE ABPOOR ABRAPE VALUE=1

  /DISPLAY NAME=[$abortpro].

 

 

Multiple Response Sets
Name	Label	Coded As	Counted Value	Data Type	Elementary Variables
$abortpro	Yes when ...	Dichotomies	1	Numeric	ABORTION IF WOMAN WANTS FOR ANY REASON STRONG CHANCE OF SERIOUS DEFECT WOMANS HEALTH SERIOUSLY ENDANGERED MARRIED--WANTS NO MORE CHILDREN LOW INCOME--CANT AFFORD MORE CHILDREN PREGNANT AS RESULT OF RAPE

 

OK Just done it myself with:

 

Analyze > Mult Response:

 

MULT RESPONSE GROUPS=$abortpro 'Total Yes responses' (abany abdefect abhlth abnomore abpoor abrape

    (1))

  /FREQUENCIES=$abortpro.

 

 

$abortpro Frequencies
		Responses		Percent of Cases
		N	Percent
Total Yes responsesa	ABORTION IF WOMAN WANTS FOR ANY REASON	550	11.5%	45.7%
	STRONG CHANCE OF SERIOUS DEFECT	952	20.0%	79.1%
	WOMANS HEALTH SERIOUSLY ENDANGERED	1146	24.1%	95.3%
	MARRIED--WANTS NO MORE CHILDREN	579	12.2%	48.1%
	LOW INCOME--CANT AFFORD MORE CHILDREN	556	11.7%	46.2%
	PREGNANT AS RESULT OF RAPE	982	20.6%	81.6%
Total		4765	100.0%	396.1%
a. Dichotomy group tabulated at value 1.

 

but the confusion arose when FREQUENCIES and CROSSTABS were grayed out when defining the MRSET.

 

AFAIK there’s nothing in the FM on this.

 

John F Hall (Mr)

[Retired academic survey researcher]

 

Email:   [hidden email] 

Website: www.surveyresearch.weebly.com

SPSS start page:  www.surveyresearch.weebly.com/spss-without-tears.html

[Jon K Peck]

If you are using the old MR set methods, the MR frequencies and crosstabs menu/dialog are necessarily disabled until you have defined an MR set, since they would not have anything to use until that is done.

If you use the CTABLE MR set mechanism, those are permanent


Jon Peck (no "h") aka Kim
Senior Software Engineer, IBM
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Date:        11/14/2013 07:26 AM
Subject:        [SPSSX-L] Frequencies for MRSETS
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I’ve just been working on a subset of variables from the 2008 GSS (NORC) used in Sweet and Grace-Martin.  

 

See: http://surveyresearch.weebly.com/sweet-and-grace-martin.html

 

This was partly to familiarise myself with the data and partly to provide a commentary on my approach to new data sets (as feedback to the authors and also as a guide to students).  I feel a complete plonker, but I’ve defined an MRSET for the NORC GSS 2008 data set, but can’t find a way to get frequencies from it.  I’d already done it with MULT RESP.  Am I barking up the wrong tree?

 

mult resp groups proabort 'Pro-abortion when ...'

            (abany abdefect abhlth abnomore abpoor abrape (1))

            /freq proabort.

 

proabort Frequencies
		Responses		Percent of Cases
		N	Percent
Pro-abortion when ...a	ABORTION IF WOMAN WANTS FOR ANY REASON	550	11.5%	45.7%
	STRONG CHANCE OF SERIOUS DEFECT	952	20.0%	79.1%
	WOMANS HEALTH SERIOUSLY ENDANGERED	1146	24.1%	95.3%
	MARRIED--WANTS NO MORE CHILDREN	579	12.2%	48.1%
	LOW INCOME--CANT AFFORD MORE CHILDREN	556	11.7%	46.2%
	PREGNANT AS RESULT OF RAPE	982	20.6%	81.6%
Total		4765	100.0%	396.1%
a. Dichotomy group tabulated at value 1.

 

* Define Multiple Response Sets.

MRSETS

  /MDGROUP NAME=$abortpro LABEL='Yes when ...' CATEGORYLABELS=VARLABELS VARIABLES=ABANY ABDEFECT

    ABHLTH ABNOMORE ABPOOR ABRAPE VALUE=1

  /DISPLAY NAME=[$abortpro].

 

 

Multiple Response Sets
Name	Label	Coded As	Counted Value	Data Type	Elementary Variables
$abortpro	Yes when ...	Dichotomies	1	Numeric	ABORTION IF WOMAN WANTS FOR ANY REASON STRONG CHANCE OF SERIOUS DEFECT WOMANS HEALTH SERIOUSLY ENDANGERED MARRIED--WANTS NO MORE CHILDREN LOW INCOME--CANT AFFORD MORE CHILDREN PREGNANT AS RESULT OF RAPE

 

OK Just done it myself with:

 

Analyze > Mult Response:

 

MULT RESPONSE GROUPS=$abortpro 'Total Yes responses' (abany abdefect abhlth abnomore abpoor abrape

    (1))

  /FREQUENCIES=$abortpro.

 

 

$abortpro Frequencies
		Responses		Percent of Cases
		N	Percent
Total Yes responsesa	ABORTION IF WOMAN WANTS FOR ANY REASON	550	11.5%	45.7%
	STRONG CHANCE OF SERIOUS DEFECT	952	20.0%	79.1%
	WOMANS HEALTH SERIOUSLY ENDANGERED	1146	24.1%	95.3%
	MARRIED--WANTS NO MORE CHILDREN	579	12.2%	48.1%
	LOW INCOME--CANT AFFORD MORE CHILDREN	556	11.7%	46.2%
	PREGNANT AS RESULT OF RAPE	982	20.6%	81.6%
Total		4765	100.0%	396.1%
a. Dichotomy group tabulated at value 1.

 

but the confusion arose when FREQUENCIES and CROSSTABS were grayed out when defining the MRSET.

 

AFAIK there’s nothing in the FM on this.

 

John F Hall (Mr)

[Retired academic survey researcher]

 

Email:   johnfhall@...  

Website: www.surveyresearch.weebly.com

SPSS start page:  www.surveyresearch.weebly.com/spss-without-tears.html