Re: How to code hazards across house rooms

Posted by Mark Miller on Feb 08, 2013; 7:31am
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/How-to-code-hazards-across-house-rooms-tp5717973p5717978.html

Someone else has already suggested Hazards per Room.

If such data is provided, Hazards per Square Foot of space 

might help you get around the number of rooms issue.

... Mark Miller

On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 11:18 PM, Rich Ulrich <[hidden email]> wrote:

Think about what someone will be writing up.  What is the narrative?
(You don't tell us that, but you might assume that it is safer to look
at a wider rather than a narrower range of options, even if there is a
firmly stated, and limited, purpose.)

It seems to me that collapsing everything you know about hazards
into one number is premature.  Just for starters, you *will*  want to
know the total number of hazards, which requires the the total number
of all hazards in each household -- which might be more than 14. 
Hazards-per-room also seems useful to report. 

The "number of different hazards"  might go along with a mention of
non-prevalent hazards, and gives an additional perspective on risk.
That is the one that might be important for assessing the success of
any educational or other preventative measures. 

--
Rich Ulrich

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Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 19:21:43 -0500
From: [hidden email]

Subject: How to code hazards across house rooms

To: [hidden email]

Dear List:  I have just received an SPSS data file from a colleague that contains responses from a City’s elderly residents who reported on safety hazards within their homes/apartments. Each room could have anywhere from 10 to 14 hazards that the residents had to check off. We are interested in getting a total hazards score for  the five rooms (across the kitchen, living room, bedroom, dining room, and bathroom). However, I have noticed that not all of the residents had five rooms. Some lived in efficiency apartments and only had two rooms. If I totaled up the number of hazards across all rooms  those with fewer rooms would automatically have lower hazards. If I obtained the mean across all of the rooms than residents could have the same mean number of hazards but it would be based upon a different number of rooms. I am trying to figure out how to factor in the number of rooms. Some way of weighting the scores but I am a bit dumbfounded on this. I realize that this is not an SPSS question but would appreciate suggestions (if you would like to chime in) as I begin to figure out how to analyze the data.  Thanks in advance,   martin

 

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