How to handle multiple response questions
In a lot of research, multiple answers can be given to a single question. For example:
“What kind of food do you like?”
o soup
o rice
o salad
How do you analyse this type of question? Let’s assume you want to make a table with the answers. How do you combine them? Even though it may seem like the most easy thing to do, this is pretty difficult stuff. SPSS is good at analyzing unique combinations of variables (answers to questions) combined with unique cases (people in a survey). The combination of more than one answer per person, does not fit into that logic. So we have to be a little creative.
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