hi,
I'm working on a research and I want to exmine the results in SPSS.
I'm typing in the data now , and it goes this way:
*I put each qeustion of the reasearch as a numeric variable and gives
any option a number(value),
the problem is when I have for example 8 options (answers) but there's
also a possability to choose several options.
so what I do now is giving each possability a number, but there're
tens of options and I'm getting out of ny mind finding all of them and
givinig them a number...
please:
Does anyone now if and how I can do it easier?
Is there an option in SPSS (Statistics 17.0) to make it automatically?

thanx a lot,
Chaya

On Mar 17, 10:18=A0am, chaya berezin <chayu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi,
> I'm working on a research and I want to exmine the results in SPSS.
> I'm typing in the data now , and it goes this way:
> *I put each qeustion of the reasearch as a numeric variable and gives
> any option a number(value),
> the problem is when I have for example 8 options (answers) but there's
> also a possability to choose several options.
> so what I do now is giving each possability a number, but there're
> tens of options and I'm getting out of ny mind finding all of them and
> givinig them a number...
> please:
> Does anyone now if and how I can do it easier?
> Is there an option in SPSS (Statistics 17.0) to make it automatically?
>
> thanx a lot,
> Chaya

If I understand you correctly you can either code your data in several
variables as multiple dichotomies or multiple responses. In both cases
you would use SPSS multiple response in ctables (or the separate
command) to tabulate.
jon

On Mar 17, 3:18=A0am, chaya berezin <chayu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi,
> I'm working on a research and I want to exmine the results in SPSS.
> I'm typing in the data now , and it goes this way:
> *I put each qeustion of the reasearch as a numeric variable and gives
> any option a number(value),
> the problem is when I have for example 8 options (answers) but there's
> also a possability to choose several options.
> so what I do now is giving each possability a number, but there're
> tens of options and I'm getting out of ny mind finding all of them and
> givinig them a number...
> please:
> Does anyone now if and how I can do it easier?
> Is there an option in SPSS (Statistics 17.0) to make it automatically?
>
> thanx a lot,
> Chaya

Chaya,
If I understand well, what you have is a "check all that apply"
questions. In this case, one way to do it is to create a 'new'
variable for each of the responses. So, if the question has 8
responses, then you will end up with 8 questions with "checked" or
"unchecked" responses. After this, when you do the analysis, you may
need to aggregate the answers into something that it will make sense
to you. Is this make sense?

Ki