Re: Mean score for a directed relationship

Posted by Sarah Deweert on Nov 03, 2016; 5:25pm
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Mean-score-for-a-directed-relationship-tp5733410p5733422.html

Your simple method of the means procedure already does the trick. Thank you very much! The CTABLE command worked perfectly as well, so no errors there, but for now I like the oversight of the means command better.

For more background on the data, you did figure out everything correctly. I am also grateful for the tips on renaming the variables for clarity reasons.

The judgements are actually the mean of a series of judgements on the ability, benevolence and integrity of the members of the other organisation. It is the sum of six judgements (items in the questionnaire) on a 5-point scale, divided by six. As I remember this is a valid way to make an aggregated variable.

There is indeed a judgement by one respondent for each of the six organisations, including his own, in the dataset. But for his own organisation there will always be a missing, because no respondent judges his own organisation. The data looks like this because this was the easiest for me to restructure the data. Concerning the missing judgements for some target organisations, this is mostly due to not having contact with that organisation, so the question was not applicable.