Date:         Wed, 11 Dec 2002 13:43:20 -0500
Reply-To:     "Tesiny, Ed" <EdTesiny@oasas.state.ny.us>
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From:         "Tesiny, Ed" <EdTesiny@oasas.state.ny.us>
Subject:      Re: Survey Research

By rank, do you mean which of the 5 factors is the most important, 2nd in
importance, etc.  Convert you likert scale strings to numerical values and
sum them for each factor, high score (or low score depending how you assign
the numbers) will give you your ranking.  Or am I missing your point?

Ed Tesiny
Research Psychologist
EdTesiny@oasas.state.ny.us


-----Original Message-----
From: Andrei Boucher [mailto:andrei_boucher@yahoo.ca]
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 1:34 PM
To: SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: Survey Research


One of a ways is to do the Regression Analysis, but you need a dependent
variable (like job satisfaction). Treat these items as independent
variables. May be some expert in this list may have better advice! AB
Maureen Lastima <m_lastima@hotmail.com> wrote:I have a question. On one of
my surveys, I have a series of items that respondents must pick an answer
from a Likert Scale.

How important are the following items in choosing a job:

Salary
Location
Benefits
Vacation Time
Career Advancement

The likert scale used is Very Important-Important-Somewhat Important-Not
Important

I dummied the likert scale into 'V.Imp' and Not 'V.Imp' and looked at how
gender affected the answer.

That's the easy part. Now I want 'rank' the items(even though that's not
what I asked the respondents to do), how do I go about doing that in SPSS.

Thanks in advance




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