Various things are possible, depending on the situation. In no particular order, except as they occurred to me: 1. What's your time-line? (When do you need to report something?) 2. What are the values on your scales? Are they the same for each question? Are they coded in the same direction for each question? Are the scale values at least monotonic (e.g., from "Strongly Agree" to "Strongly Disagree")? 3. Is it (un)reasonable to add questions together to produce (one or more) summary scores or indexes? 4. What questions do you want to ask of the data? (What is the research designed FOR, etc.?)
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Uziel wrote: > Really appreciate any help. > I know it's a novice question, but I'm lost. > I have about 40 returned questionnaires, which contain 28 questions, > divided into two sections of 14 questions each. > Each Question has 1 to 5 scale answers. > Now, my question is, besides summing up: how many picked X answer in Y > question, > What kind of analysis can I perform? Is there a Tutorial/guide I can > find on the web? > > Thank you, > Uziel ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Donald F. Burrill [EMAIL PROTECTED] 56 Sebbins Pond Drive, Bedford, NH 03110 (603) 626-0816 . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
