Re: Code Open-ended Questions using SPSS
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Dear lister(s):
To code the open-end the question (verbatim) is very boring and time-consuming. For Example, I have some question like this: ------------------------------------------------------ Question: What is the most important thing the Canadian Government should consider now? Respno Question# Answer 0001 X1 I think the Health care is most urgent 0003 X2 Many people are losing their job . . . . . . . . . 3987 X2 More and more immigrants from all over the word make Canada a much worse place to live ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have been wonder whether we can make the job a little bit easy by SPSS syntax something like this? Computer X1=0 If "Economy" X1=1 If "Agriculture" =2 If "Health Care" x1=3 Sincerely Hans Chen ===================== To manage your subscription to SPSSX-L, send a message to [hidden email] (not to SPSSX-L), with no body text except the command. To leave the list, send the command SIGNOFF SPSSX-L For a list of commands to manage subscriptions, send the command INFO REFCARD |
Re: Code Open-ended Questions using SPSS
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try something like this untested syntax.
autorecode variables = mystring /into mynumber /print. recode mynumber (1,12,42,103,210=1) (2,4, 18 thru 28 =2) (3,5, 188 thru 199 =3) ... (17, 98, 102, 165 thru 171, 211 thru 215 = 11) (else=12) into x1. value labels 1 "Economy" 2 "Agriculture" 3 "health care" . . . 11 "Gas prices" 12 "other. sort cases by x1 mystring. list vars= x1 mystring. go back and fix the recode. you may have to do this several times until you are satisfied. If you have more than one variable that you want to recode the same way, use the /grouped option in autorecode Art Kendall Social Research Consultants Hans Chen wrote: > Dear lister(s): > > > > To code the open-end the question (verbatim) is very boring and > time-consuming. > For Example, I have some question like this: > ------------------------------------------------------ > > Question: What is the most important thing the Canadian Government should > consider now? > > Respno Question# Answer > > 0001 X1 I think the Health care is most urgent > > 0003 X2 Many people are losing their job > > . . . > > . . . > > . . . > 3987 X2 More and more immigrants from all over the word make Canada > a much worse place to live > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > I have been wonder whether we can make the job a little bit easy by SPSS > syntax something like this? > > Computer X1=0 > > If "Economy" X1=1 > > If "Agriculture" =2 > > If "Health Care" x1=3 > > > > Sincerely > > > > > > > > > > Hans Chen > > ===================== > To manage your subscription to SPSSX-L, send a message to > [hidden email] (not to SPSSX-L), with no body text except the > command. To leave the list, send the command > SIGNOFF SPSSX-L > For a list of commands to manage subscriptions, send the command > INFO REFCARD > > > ===================== To manage your subscription to SPSSX-L, send a message to [hidden email] (not to SPSSX-L), with no body text except the command. To leave the list, send the command SIGNOFF SPSSX-L For a list of commands to manage subscriptions, send the command INFO REFCARD
Art Kendall
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Re: Code Open-ended Questions using SPSS
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There is an stand-alone software of spss called "text
analysis for surveys". The open-ended question like the example of Hans can be handled easily. Cheers, John --- Hans Chen <[hidden email]> wrote: > Dear lister(s): > > > > To code the open-end the question (verbatim) is very > boring and > time-consuming. > For Example, I have some question like this: > ------------------------------------------------------ > > Question: What is the most important thing the > Canadian Government should > consider now? > > Respno Question# Answer > > 0001 X1 I think the Health care is most > urgent > > 0003 X2 Many people are losing their job > > . . . > > . . . > > . . . > 3987 X2 More and more immigrants from all > over the word make Canada > a much worse place to live > > > > I have been wonder whether we can make the job a > little bit easy by SPSS > syntax something like this? > > Computer X1=0 > > If "Economy" X1=1 > > If "Agriculture" =2 > > If "Health Care" x1=3 > > > > Sincerely > > > > > > > > > > Hans Chen > > ===================== > To manage your subscription to SPSSX-L, send a > message to > [hidden email] (not to SPSSX-L), with no > body text except the > command. To leave the list, send the command > SIGNOFF SPSSX-L > For a list of commands to manage subscriptions, send > the command > INFO REFCARD > ____________________________________________________________________________________ You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost. http://tc.deals.yahoo.com/tc/blockbuster/text5.com ===================== To manage your subscription to SPSSX-L, send a message to [hidden email] (not to SPSSX-L), with no body text except the command. To leave the list, send the command SIGNOFF SPSSX-L For a list of commands to manage subscriptions, send the command INFO REFCARD |
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Apart from using STAFS, this is a good candidate for processing with programmability regular expressions, but doing a thorough job is a lot of work - which is why there is specialized software for this.
Regards, Jon Peck -----Original Message----- From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Hans Chen Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2008 8:46 AM To: [hidden email] Subject: Re: [SPSSX-L] Code Open-ended Questions using SPSS Dear lister(s): To code the open-end the question (verbatim) is very boring and time-consuming. For Example, I have some question like this: ------------------------------------------------------ Question: What is the most important thing the Canadian Government should consider now? Respno Question# Answer 0001 X1 I think the Health care is most urgent 0003 X2 Many people are losing their job . . . . . . . . . 3987 X2 More and more immigrants from all over the word make Canada a much worse place to live ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have been wonder whether we can make the job a little bit easy by SPSS syntax something like this? Computer X1=0 If "Economy" X1=1 If "Agriculture" =2 If "Health Care" x1=3 Sincerely Hans Chen ===================== To manage your subscription to SPSSX-L, send a message to [hidden email] (not to SPSSX-L), with no body text except the command. To leave the list, send the command SIGNOFF SPSSX-L For a list of commands to manage subscriptions, send the command INFO REFCARD ===================== To manage your subscription to SPSSX-L, send a message to [hidden email] (not to SPSSX-L), with no body text except the command. To leave the list, send the command SIGNOFF SPSSX-L For a list of commands to manage subscriptions, send the command INFO REFCARD |
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Hans,
For this to work you would need a list of synonyms for each term, e.g economy etc, that were mutually exclusive. I once used a DOS based program called VB-PRO for such a task. It was freeware. Bob At 12:46 AM 7/04/2008, you wrote: >Dear lister(s): > > > >To code the open-end the question (verbatim) is very boring and >time-consuming. >For Example, I have some question like this: >------------------------------------------------------ > >Question: What is the most important thing the Canadian Government should >consider now? > >Respno Question# Answer > >0001 X1 I think the Health care is most urgent > >0003 X2 Many people are losing their job > >. . . > >. . . > >. . . >3987 X2 More and more immigrants from all over the word make Canada >a much worse place to live >---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >I have been wonder whether we can make the job a little bit easy by SPSS >syntax something like this? > >Computer X1=0 > >If "Economy" X1=1 > >If "Agriculture" =2 > >If "Health Care" x1=3 > > > >Sincerely > > > > > > > > > >Hans Chen > >===================== >To manage your subscription to SPSSX-L, send a message to >[hidden email] (not to SPSSX-L), with no body text except the >command. To leave the list, send the command >SIGNOFF SPSSX-L >For a list of commands to manage subscriptions, send the command >INFO REFCARD ===================== To manage your subscription to SPSSX-L, send a message to [hidden email] (not to SPSSX-L), with no body text except the command. To leave the list, send the command SIGNOFF SPSSX-L For a list of commands to manage subscriptions, send the command INFO REFCARD |
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I guess you mena this one :
http://www.mariapinto.es/ciberabstracts/Articulos/VBPro.htm Another prog that might help is the German TextStat which also has an English interface : TextSTAT - Simple Text Analysis Tool Concordance software for Windows, GNU/Linux and MacOS X TextSTAT is a simple programme for the analysis of texts. It reads ASCII/ANSI texts (in different encodings) and HTML files (directly from the internet) and it produces word frequency lists and concordances from these files. http://www.niederlandistik.fu-berlin.de/textstat/software-en.html Hope this helps Frank Thomas Bob Green wrote: > Hans, > > For this to work you would need a list of synonyms for each term, e.g > economy etc, that were mutually exclusive. I once used a DOS based > program called VB-PRO for such a task. It was freeware. > > Bob > > At 12:46 AM 7/04/2008, you wrote: >> Dear lister(s): >> >> >> >> To code the open-end the question (verbatim) is very boring and >> time-consuming. >> For Example, I have some question like this: >> ------------------------------------------------------ >> >> Question: What is the most important thing the Canadian Government >> should >> consider now? >> >> Respno Question# Answer >> >> 0001 X1 I think the Health care is most urgent >> >> 0003 X2 Many people are losing their job >> >> . . . >> >> . . . >> >> . . . >> 3987 X2 More and more immigrants from all over the word make >> Canada >> a much worse place to live >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> >> I have been wonder whether we can make the job a little bit easy by SPSS >> syntax something like this? >> >> Computer X1=0 >> >> If "Economy" X1=1 >> >> If "Agriculture" =2 >> >> If "Health Care" x1=3 >> >> >> >> Sincerely >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Hans Chen >> >> ===================== >> To manage your subscription to SPSSX-L, send a message to >> [hidden email] (not to SPSSX-L), with no body text except the >> command. To leave the list, send the command >> SIGNOFF SPSSX-L >> For a list of commands to manage subscriptions, send the command >> INFO REFCARD > > ===================== > To manage your subscription to SPSSX-L, send a message to > [hidden email] (not to SPSSX-L), with no body text except the > command. To leave the list, send the command > SIGNOFF SPSSX-L > For a list of commands to manage subscriptions, send the command > INFO REFCARD > > -- .......................................... Dr. Frank Thomas FTR Internet Research 93110 Rosny-sous-Bois France ===================== To manage your subscription to SPSSX-L, send a message to [hidden email] (not to SPSSX-L), with no body text except the command. To leave the list, send the command SIGNOFF SPSSX-L For a list of commands to manage subscriptions, send the command INFO REFCARD |
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