Re: How to code hazards across house rooms

Posted by Maguin, Eugene on Feb 08, 2013; 2:35pm
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/How-to-code-hazards-across-house-rooms-tp5717973p5717988.html

Martin,

 

I addition to what others have said, I think that you might want to consider multiple ways of working with the data. Certainly compute the mean, hazards per room. I don’t know that weighting is the correct concept here because weighting seems to be part of the design of a complex survey design. I think it might be useful to investigate total hazards as a function of number of rooms. I wonder if the relationship is linear. I could imagine that it’s not because number of rooms probably has some correlation magnitude with wealth/income, which might well be related to hazard opportunity. Depending on how you asked the questions, a hazard is an unremediated hazard opportunity.

 

Gene Maguin

 

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Subject: How to code hazards across house rooms

 

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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