Re: New to SPSS (Multiple responses)

Posted by Tom1234 on Aug 14, 2012; 3:35pm
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/New-to-SPSS-Multiple-responses-tp5714676p5714686.html

For a start you should have some control variables in there somewhere, Total respondents etc. (you can use the COLPCT or ROWPCT for that.)

What are you actually aiming to do with the data? What's your intended conclusion? (I'm with David Marso on this one)

You could compare the significance of each answer with each other or compare certain demographics of the people who answered the first and second sets, the trends that each kind of person has according to the data.

What was the actual question you were asking? was it an open ended question? I'm assuming so as you said 'I read these reflections and counted the number of times they said e.g. they have learnt'.

What was the time scale between the two samples? you said that it was the same population so what has changed during that time? Perhaps do a Line chart to show the differences, the rise and fall etc. (This would be better if you had 3 or more sets of data) Perhaps the time scale has affected the respondent's interpretation of the questions? Perhaps try finding the standard error (Standard deviation) of each of the answers.