Tabulation of multiple responses

Jann, Ben (2005). Tabulation of multiple responses. Stata journal, 5(1), pp. 92-122. Stata Press 10.1177/1536867X0500500113

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Although multiple-response questions are quite common in survey research, Stata’s official release does not provide much capability for an effective analysis of multiple-response variables. For example, in a study on drug addiction an interview question might be, “Which substances did you consume during the last four weeks?” The respondents just list all the drugs they took, if any; e.g., an answer could be “cannabis, cocaine, heroin” or “ecstasy, cannabis” or “none”, etc. Usually, the responses to such questions are stored as a set of variables and, therefore, cannot be easily tabulated. I will address this issue here and present a new module to compute one- and two-way tables of multiple responses. The module supports several types of data structure, provides significance tests, and offers various options to control the computation and display of the results. In addition, tools to create graphs of multiple-response distributions are presented.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

03 Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Institute of Sociology

UniBE Contributor:

Jann, Ben

Subjects:

300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology

ISSN:

1536-867X

Publisher:

Stata Press

Language:

English

Submitter:

Ben Jann

Date Deposited:

19 Apr 2016 16:24

Last Modified:

02 Apr 2024 21:07

Publisher DOI:

10.1177/1536867X0500500113

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.67678

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/67678

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