Re: Help with Multivariate, analyze demographics and response percentages

Posted by Doc2Be on Jan 09, 2015; 2:24pm
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Help-with-Multivariate-analyze-demographics-and-response-percentages-tp5728363p5728396.html

Bruce and John,

Thank you both, so very much. I am processing your answers. Already, using the recode, I am getting mostly what I am looking for.

I am going to keep plugging away... thank you.

John, you mentioned, in telling me about not reporting percentages for under 40 cases, that "it makes a net difference of 5 percentage points".  Will you help me see with your experience? Is 5 percentage points too much?

As I get more into doctoral level statistics, I am finding a difficulty in learning what spread of numbers is large and what is not (and I understand that it depends on the subject at hand). I might look at a number that is .368 and a number that is .395, and not think much, because its only a .027 difference, but then I keep reading and the researcher will say, "...is all the way up to .395 - a very large difference" and I am stymied.

I know that's a bit off-thread for our topic.  But please, help me understand the 5 percentage points being a big deal.

Thanks.