Coding Ordinal Data
This week we got a question from Mark Mortensen regarding Coding Ordinal Data.
“What is the best way to set up a variable and code ordinal data when it is generated by a question such as “Rank the following three items using 1 as the most use, 2 the next most use, and three, the least use?”
For this query we can consider the following example. In the following data there is three different 4 wheelers brands. The respondent gives the opinion about usage on their brand like most often, second most often and least often. It is captured brand wise. Using this syntax easily we can find out which brand is most often, second most often and least often. This recoding we can do vise-versa based on data capturing.
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2 comments November 3rd, 2006 Lawrence