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I agree with Dr. Davidson. A Likert scale yields nominal categories, so a frequency distribution may be
most appropriate.
If you're lucky, and the middle category isn't an escape category, it may have ordinal properties.
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Yes, Sonia and Henk, although use of response categories at the nominal or continuous are
permissible too. Many nice discussions in below.
1. Likert, Rensis (1932). "A Technique for the Measurement of Attitudes". Archives of Psychology
140: 1–55. … Read more
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Thanks for this question and the many great answers here. Much has been said, so I just
wanted to highlight that today, in the computerized age and with many studies being run
on the Internet (see e.g. http://wexlist.net), a visual analogue scale (VAS) format may
often be better.
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When treated as ordinal data, Likert responses can be collated into bar charts, central
tendency summarized by the median or the mode (but some would say not the mean),
dispersion summarized by the range across quartiles (but some would sa … Read more
Very nice response Rosa, thank you. Your suggestions fall precisely in line with what
appears to be the correct current thinking on this problem. While I'm sure Likert would
like to treat the scale scores as continuous measures (psycholinguistics was his thing,
remember) I think time has shown the distribution of responses are more like nominal or
ordinal distributions, as you say. In what amounts to an advertisement … Read more
There's so much general measurement error in self-reports using a Likert scale that,
paradoxically, I don't think much is lost, and much can be gained, by treating it as a
continuous scale, as long as such an analysis is used in addition to, and not instead of,
analyses that model the responses as ordinal. Yes, there's no way to ascertain each
respondent's distance between categories (it may take an awful lot for ce … Read more
I read that if the items in the questionnaire are not related the reported descriptives
should be frequencies, median or mode (nominal or ordinal data)-inferential stats would
be chi square and/or non parametric tests; if several questions were related to a
construct or category, then getting the means was an aceptable procedure for later
running anovas (checking its assumptions) previous combination of the s … Read more
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Mark Brown 4 years ago
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I'm sorry for asking but did anyone here use SPSS to analyze 5-points likert scale
questions? Do we have to insert/analyze the data as scale or ordinal?
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Hamizah Yakob 4 years ago
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Miss Hazirah. I'm using 5 point likert scale for my questionnaire. And i did analyse the
data as ordinal in SPSS. This is supported by Pallant (2010) who indicate that some of
the statistics (for instance mean and Std) are not appropriate if you have a categorical
variable (ordinal/ nominal)
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Fabio Valeri 2 months ago
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see:
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