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SPSS® 12.0 Command Syntax Reference

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1020 MULT RESPONSE<br />

Options<br />

did not give the maximum number of answers, the extra variables receive a missing-value<br />

code. This is the multiple-response or multiple-category method of coding answers.<br />

To analyze the data entered by either method, you combine variables into groups. The<br />

technique depends on whether you have defined multiple-dichotomy or multiple-response<br />

variables. When you create a multiple-dichotomy group, each component variable with at<br />

least one yes value across cases becomes a category of the group variable. When you create a<br />

multiple-response group, each value becomes a category and the program calculates the<br />

frequency for a particular value by adding the frequencies of all component variables with that<br />

value. Both multiple-dichotomy and multiple-response groups can be crosstabulated with<br />

other variables in MULT RESPONSE.<br />

Cell Counts and Percentages. By default, crosstabulations include only counts and no<br />

percentages. You can request row, column, and total table percentages using the CELLS<br />

subcommand. You can also base percentages on responses instead of respondents using BASE.<br />

Format. You can suppress the display of value labels and request condensed format for<br />

frequency tables using the FORMAT subcommand.<br />

Basic Specification<br />

The subcommands required for the basic specification fall into two groups: GROUPS and<br />

VARIABLES name the elements to be included in the analysis; FREQUENCIES and TABLES<br />

specify the type of table display to be used for tabulation. The basic specification requires at<br />

least one subcommand from each group:<br />

• GROUPS defines groups of multiple-response items to be analyzed and specifies how the<br />

component variables will be combined.<br />

• VARIABLES identifies all individual variables to be analyzed.<br />

• FREQUENCIES requests frequency tables for the groups and/or individual variables specified<br />

on GROUPS and VARIABLES.<br />

• TABLES requests crosstabulations of groups and/or individual variables specified on<br />

GROUPS and VARIABLES.<br />

Subcommand Order<br />

• The basic subcommands must be used in the following order: GROUPS, VARIABLES,<br />

FREQUENCIES, and TABLES. Only one set of basic subcommands can be specified.<br />

• All basic subcommands must precede all optional subcommands. Optional subcommands<br />

can be used in any order.

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