Coding Multiple Variables and Open-ended Questions. Part 2 of 3 on Quantitative Coding

A lecture on coding and data entry in quantitative research by Graham R Gibbs taken from a series on quantitative data analysis and statistics given to undergraduate students at the University of Huddersfield. This is part 2 of 3 and examines how to deal with questions with more than one answer and questions with open-ended answers.
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Lovely and very helpful lecture, i must say. The series outro catches me off-guard every time, i love it.

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[@shell495]

I have a survey with nearly 600 responses. Some questions have multiple responses but converting it from excel to spss does not recognise the multiple variables. Any ideas? Please help...

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[@VictorOrdu]

Great video! Just to add that the questions you're trying to answer would necessarily influence the number of categories you would create while coding open-ended questions.

[@cococnk388]

More to that to, putting one respond in a category, when the respond has and equal amount of information of all the categories made by the statistician....it is kind of difficults ...baised in a way....

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Thank you for this video. Can you use SPSS to analyse data from a content analysis of Newspaper or website?

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Excellent!
Dumb question: Isn't grouping and categorizing the same thing?

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[@beyondgirl]

Thank you very much for this video!
When we code the qualitative answers and then we have more variables (we have as many variables as the coded answers)...how can we find the frequencies of these answers which have taken the form of different variables?

[@GrahamRGibbs]

You need to rewatch the video. The point is to categorise the open-ended answers into a smaller set of categories. In my example it was into three categories. Then you can retrieve frequencies on these.

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[@cococnk388]

You do the bar chart of the column (answer that have become a variable) eg. Handball... on the x axis you will have the label "yes" and "no"... then do the counts for the sport column.
You will have a total a three bar charts if the maximum choice of sports is three.
Keep in mind that if we sum the total counts of label "Yes" of all the bar charts of the different sports it will not be equal to the total number of people that replied to the survey unless all the people take only one sport an not two.

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