factor analysis

[Tae-In Lee]

Hi,

I'm involved in a secondary data analysis using SPSS complex samples module.

 

1) Can SPSS do a factor analysis with a series (a total of 11) of binary (yes/no) variables?  We understand it is not widely encouraged, but people have done it using Mplus. Does SPSS offer a way to do FA with binary variables? If so, what is it?

2) According to SPSS complex samples manual, one can compute chi-square through CS crosstabulation. When I tried, I got an error message saying that the subpopulation I created (age 14 and over) was not identified as the original strata. I’d like to know how I could resolve the error and do the crosstab to compute chi-square.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Tae Lee