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Data Multiple Response

When you ask questions where respondents are allowed to give more than one answer, this will result is more than one variable in the SPSS data file. But since the answers all relate to the same question, you would like to present them in a single table or graph.
In order to do so you first have to define this set of variables as belonging to a group; the technical term for this is a Multiple Response Set.

There are two way in which you can code a multiple response question, namely as dichotomies or as categories. This is explained on the Codebook page.
On this page we show you for both methods how to define a multiple response set.

Multiple Response, dichotomies

Multiple Response, categories

Multiple response question, dichotomies

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Coding, dichotomies

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Defining the Set

In our definition we indicate which variables have to be joined to form a set.
Furthermore we specify which of the two options in the dichotomy has to be counted.



In our example the value 1 indicates that the option is ticked.
So that is the counted value we are interested in.

Once your definition is completed and confirmed by clicking OK, SPSS reports the result in the output window.

dichotomies output

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Defining Multiple Response Set, categories

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Coding, categories

Since respondents are asked to tick (at most) two options, two variables suffice.

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Defining the Set

In our definition we indicate which variables have to be joined to form a set.
Furthermore we specify the set has to be created using categories.



Once your definition is completed and confirmed by clicking OK, SPSS reports the result in the output window.

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Last modified 30-10-2012
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Jos Seegers, 2009; English version by Gé Groenewegen.