Ranking Question SPSS

[caxa]

Hello

I have problems to include in SPSS a ranking question. The question of my questionnaire is:

Please rank the characteristics and skills that Revenue Management requires in order importance based on a scale 1 to 8   When 1 is the more relevant characteristics and 8 is the less relevant characteristic. And I have  these options:


Analytical Skills.
Communications and sales skills.
Formal Revenue Management education
Leadership Skills
Negotiation skills
Reservation background
Rooms background
Technical systems skills

Please somebody help How I include that is SPSS

[David Marso]

Clearly you will have to Allocate 8 fields (columns) in your data file.
Options:
How you decide to do this is entirely up to you and how you intend to analyze the data.
a.  A given field represents the characteristic/skill  and the field contents would represent the RANK.
b.  A given field represents the RANK and the field contents would contain a code for the characteristic/skill.
These data representations can be readily converted back and forth so how you start is really up to you.
See VECTOR and LOOP in the FM (fine manual) to sort that.
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caxa wrote

Hello

I have problems to include in SPSS a ranking question. The question of my questionnaire is:

Please rank the characteristics and skills that Revenue Management requires in order importance based on a scale 1 to 8   When 1 is the more relevant characteristics and 8 is the less relevant characteristic. And I have  these options:


Analytical Skills.
Communications and sales skills.
Formal Revenue Management education
Leadership Skills
Negotiation skills
Reservation background
Rooms background
Technical systems skills

Please somebody help How I include that is SPSS

[Poes, Matthew Joseph]

As was already mentioned, this will need to be treated as 8 separate variables, with each one having a value between 1 and 8.  There really isn't a way of easily representing this question in the way that we might logically conceptualize it, so we need to consider what the question is really asking, and be creative in how we treat it.

Ranking questions like this have the issue that, for each variable in the set, the ranking value depends on the values chosen for other variables in the set, as each variable can only have one value.  Similar to the selection without replacement principle, and this means too that there are probabilities associated with the ranking choices.  However, the number of permutations is quite large, and the interpretation quite dense.  When it comes time for analysis, I would consider something like Cluster analysis, which keeps interpretation of the "patterns" in terms of the person that makes the ranking decision.  Then cluster membership could be used in any inferential analysis.  Even from a descriptive standpoint, you may find that the clusters well reflect the conceptual ranking groups we would expect (Though again, the number of ranking possibilities would be meaninglessly large, which is why I think something like cluster analysis would reduce this down into something more p!
 opulation meaningful).

This is just a thought based on my own analysis of ranking questions.  You, of course, will need to make your own decisions based on your own research questions.

Matthew J Poes
Research Data Specialist
Center for Prevention Research and Development
University of Illinois
510 Devonshire Dr.
Champaign, IL 61820
Phone: [phone]
email: [hidden email]


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Hello

I have problems to include in SPSS a ranking question. The question of my questionnaire is:

Please rank the characteristics and skills that Revenue Management requires
in order importance based on a scale 1 to 8   When 1 is the more relevant
characteristics and 8 is the less relevant characteristic. And I have  these
options:


Analytical Skills.
Communications and sales skills.
Formal Revenue Management education
Leadership Skills
Negotiation skills
Reservation background
Rooms background
Technical systems skills

Please somebody help How I include that is SPSS


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[Dale]

A variation on one of the Conjoint Analytic processes may be of assistance in this case as well.

Dale


Dale Pietrzak, Ed.D., LPCMH, CCMHC
Director, Office of Academic Evaluation and Assessment
University of South Dakota
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As was already mentioned, this will need to be treated as 8 separate variables, with each one having a value between 1 and 8.  There really isn't a way of easily representing this question in the way that we might logically conceptualize it, so we need to consider what the question is really asking, and be creative in how we treat it.

Ranking questions like this have the issue that, for each variable in the set, the ranking value depends on the values chosen for other variables in the set, as each variable can only have one value.  Similar to the selection without replacement principle, and this means too that there are probabilities associated with the ranking choices.  However, the number of permutations is quite large, and the interpretation quite dense.  When it comes time for analysis, I would consider something like Cluster analysis, which keeps interpretation of the "patterns" in terms of the person that makes the ranking decision.  Then cluster membership could be used in any inferential analysis.  Even from a descriptive standpoint, you may find that the clusters well reflect the conceptual ranking groups we would expect (Though again, the number of ranking possibilities would be meaninglessly large, which is why I think something like cluster analysis would reduce this down into something more p!

 opulation meaningful).

This is just a thought based on my own analysis of ranking questions.  You, of course, will need to make your own decisions based on your own research questions.

Matthew J Poes
Research Data Specialist
Center for Prevention Research and Development University of Illinois
510 Devonshire Dr.
Champaign, IL 61820
Phone: [phone]
email: [hidden email]


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Subject: Ranking Question SPSS

Hello

I have problems to include in SPSS a ranking question. The question of my questionnaire is:

Please rank the characteristics and skills that Revenue Management requires
in order importance based on a scale 1 to 8   When 1 is the more relevant
characteristics and 8 is the less relevant characteristic. And I have  these
options:


Analytical Skills.
Communications and sales skills.
Formal Revenue Management education
Leadership Skills
Negotiation skills
Reservation background
Rooms background
Technical systems skills

Please somebody help How I include that is SPSS


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[Art Kendall]

These may in fact be ratings. 
Could more more than one characteristic/skill get the same score?

if these are pure ranks, then you need to be careful in interpretation of results.  The lowest ranked may still be important.

On 5/15/2012 3:19 AM, caxa wrote:

Hello

I have problems to include in SPSS a ranking question. The question of my
questionnaire is:

Please rank the characteristics and skills that Revenue Management requires
in order importance based on a scale 1 to 8   When 1 is the more relevant
characteristics and 8 is the less relevant characteristic. And I have  these
options:


Analytical Skills.
Communications and sales skills.
Formal Revenue Management education
Leadership Skills
Negotiation skills
Reservation background
Rooms background
Technical systems skills

Please somebody help How I include that is SPSS


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[caxa]

Dear

Thanks so much for your help and now I consider how analyze that because already I conducted the questionnaire