finding missing item responses

[Talino Bruno]

I am trying to select any participant who did not answer eight or more
questions on a measure that has 113 items. I have all the items and their
response in my data file. Any suggetsions on how to do this?

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[Marks, Jim]

In syntax:

COUNT no_answer = v1 TO v113 (MISSING).
COMPUTE missing8 = no_answer GE 8.


Replace "v1 TO v113" with your variable list (TO will pick up all
variables in the dataset between the two values, so make sure the list
is correct.)

This will create a variable with the number of variables with a missing
value (no_answer) and a variable to FILTER/ SELECT cases with 8+ missing
(missing8).

--jim

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Subject: finding missing item responses

I am trying to select any participant who did not answer eight or more
questions on a measure that has 113 items. I have all the items and
their
response in my data file. Any suggetsions on how to do this?

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