Ranking Data with SPSS13

[Kristine Laudencia]

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[ViAnn Beadle]

How you structure the data depends upon what you want to do them. What kinds
of analysis does your father want to do here?

You have to decide what a case (a row of data) represents. Let's start with
this--what data do you have.

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From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of
Kristine Laudencia
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 10:18 AM
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Subject: Ranking Data with SPSS13

I want to help my father who is currently conducting a thesis, and he
included in his survey this portion:

KINDS/TYPES OF DISPUTES BEING RESOLVED IN THE COURT:
Direction: Please rank from 1-12 with 1 as the criminal case most often
brought for resolution in the court:

Criminal Cases
           Physical injuries
           Slander/oral defamation
           Robbery/theft
           Threats
           Damage to Property
           Abused/Battered Women
           Drug Abuse
           Trespassing
           Coercion/Unjust vexation
           Rape/Attempted rape
           Child abuse

How do I begin programming this in the variable view? What should I put
in the data view? Is it the ranks given by respondents? How would you
determine which case gets the ranks of 1st, 2nd, 3rd and so on?

[Björn Türoque]

Kristine,

The easiest way (not nescisarily the way you want) to analyze the data is to
make one variable for each of the types of criminal cases, and then for each
type of criminal case put in the score rank or order in which the item was
chosen. So you will have 12 variables, with values between 1 and 12 in them.


This will allow you to do alot of analysis, and you can recode or compute
and restructure the data once you have entered it in this format if you need
to perform other types of analysis. In designing this study, data entry and
analysis is something that should have been considered in the planning
stages. The way you collect and store your data plays a huge part in
determining what types analysis you can run once it is collected.

Don


On 6/14/07, Kristine Laudencia <[hidden email]> wrote:

>
> I want to help my father who is currently conducting a thesis, and he
> included in his survey this portion:
>
> KINDS/TYPES OF DISPUTES BEING RESOLVED IN THE COURT:
> Direction: Please rank from 1-12 with 1 as the criminal case most often
> brought for resolution in the court:
>
> Criminal Cases
>           Physical injuries
>           Slander/oral defamation
>           Robbery/theft
>           Threats
>           Damage to Property
>           Abused/Battered Women
>           Drug Abuse
>           Trespassing
>           Coercion/Unjust vexation
>           Rape/Attempted rape
>           Child abuse
>
> How do I begin programming this in the variable view? What should I put
> in the data view? Is it the ranks given by respondents? How would you
> determine which case gets the ranks of 1st, 2nd, 3rd and so on?
>

[Richard Ristow]

At 12:17 PM 6/14/2007, Kristine Laudencia wrote:

>I want to help my father who is currently conducting a thesis, and he
>included in his survey this portion:
>
>KINDS/TYPES OF DISPUTES BEING RESOLVED IN THE COURT:
>Direction: Please rank from 1-12 with 1 as the criminal case most
>often
>brought for resolution in the court:
>
>Criminal Cases
>           Physical injuries
>           Slander/oral defamation
>           Robbery/theft
>           Threats
>           Damage to Property
>           Abused/Battered Women
>           Drug Abuse
>           Trespassing
>           Coercion/Unjust vexation
>           Rape/Attempted rape
>           Child abuse
>
>How do I begin programming this in the variable view? What should I
>put
>in the data view? Is it the ranks given by respondents? How would you
>determine which case gets the ranks of 1st, 2nd, 3rd and so on?

As others have said, this depends on how your data is organized.

But if each row, or record, is a court case, and there's a single
variable giving the type of case (as above), why not a simple
FREQUENCIES on that variable?

See menu Analyze > Descriptive Statistics > Frequencies.