We have developed a questionnaire that involves a few select_multiple
items. We plan to use SPSS to analyse the data. At the moment we are
following these steps for select_multiple questions but are not sure about
recoding and importing data in SPSS:
multiple options answers coded as numbers, e.g. if someone lives with
mother=1, father=2, and sister=4, the response will be =1 2 4
we are downloading data from ODK Collect as a csv file
after some cleaning/ preparation we are importing into SPSS
We are very excited to start analysing our data, but we are struggling with
importing the select_multiple answers into a dataset, without recording
them as binary (yes/no) variables in excel before importing to spss. Is
this the only way to do it, or is there any other way around it?
When possible, I have converted the *select_multiple *questions into a
group of select_one yes_no questions that show in the same screen through
the field-list function, but that is not possible for all of our select_multiple questions.
It's actually the only way that you can make sense of the data, I mean,
creating n dummy variables for n-choice multiple questions. What else can
you do or do you need?
···
On Tuesday, April 15, 2014 5:17:31 PM UTC+7, Elona Toska wrote:
>
> d
> ear ODKers,
>
> We have developed a questionnaire that involves a few select_multiple
> items. We plan to use SPSS to analyse the data. At the moment we are
> following these steps for select_multiple questions but are not sure about
> recoding and importing data in SPSS:
>
> 1. multiple options answers coded as numbers, e.g. if someone lives with
> mother=1, father=2, and sister=4, the response will be =1 2 4
> 2. we are downloading data from ODK Collect as a csv file
> 3. after some cleaning/ preparation we are importing into SPSS
>
> We are very excited to start analysing our data, but we are struggling
> with importing the select_multiple answers into a dataset, without
> recording them as binary (yes/no) variables in excel before importing to
> spss. Is this the only way to do it, or is there any other way around it?
>
> When possible, I have converted the *select_multiple *questions into a
> group of *select_one yes_no* questions that show in the same screen
> through the field-list function, but that is not possible for all of our
> *select_multiple* questions.
>
> many thanks in advance,
> Elona
>
You may need to create n variables, and script to break into part and can
be analyzed using multi response in spss.
···
On Tuesday, April 15, 2014 at 3:17:31 PM UTC+5, Elona Toska wrote:
>
> d
> ear ODKers,
>
> We have developed a questionnaire that involves a few select_multiple
> items. We plan to use SPSS to analyse the data. At the moment we are
> following these steps for select_multiple questions but are not sure about
> recoding and importing data in SPSS:
>
> 1. multiple options answers coded as numbers, e.g. if someone lives with
> mother=1, father=2, and sister=4, the response will be =1 2 4
> 2. we are downloading data from ODK Collect as a csv file
> 3. after some cleaning/ preparation we are importing into SPSS
>
> We are very excited to start analysing our data, but we are struggling
> with importing the select_multiple answers into a dataset, without
> recording them as binary (yes/no) variables in excel before importing to
> spss. Is this the only way to do it, or is there any other way around it?
>
> When possible, I have converted the *select_multiple *questions into a
> group of *select_one yes_no* questions that show in the same screen
> through the field-list function, but that is not possible for all of our
> *select_multiple* questions.
>
> many thanks in advance,
> Elona
>