please post a small data set with what you want.
e.g., replace the question marks below with the number you want.
ID item1 to item3 total want
1 1 5 3 9 ?
2 3 3 3 9 ?
3 1 5 5 11 ?
4 5 5 5 15 ?
Art Kendall
Social Research Consultants
Lynn D. Disney wrote:
> By the percentage of respondents.in other words, I have a categorical
> variable with Likert type categories. I want to weight the summary by the
> percentage of respondents in each category, so that the total is not skewed
> by a single bad or good opinion. Is there a way to do this? I have looked at
> ctables and can get tantalizingly close, but not close enough.
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> Thanks!
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> Lynn D. Disney, Ph.D., J.D., M.P.H.
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