Re: How to calculate mean

Posted by David Marso on Jul 11, 2012; 5:20am
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/How-to-calculate-mean-tp5714118p5714122.html

AGGREGATE? Means? DESC with SPLIT FILE  (ie a bunch of ways).
A mean makes *NO* sense with a nominal scale variable unless it has two categories and even then subject to interpretation as a proportion in some reference category (1) compared to 0.    Ordinal scales ?  Purists would wince but it is common practice with say likert scale items.
Be careful what you ask for.

hellosakshi wrote

I have states name (Nominal data) and I want to calculate mean value for my other ordinal / nominal/ continuous data on the bases of states.

How can I calculate mean value in spss?