I have data of the sort below. They are summary reports of Likert scale
type questions.
S.Disgree Disgree Neutral Agree S.Agree
I like school 2 3 5 10 9
I want to create a variable that will take the individual values and give me
something like
Var Label: I like school Value label 1:S.Dis 2:Dis 3:Neut 4:Agree 5:S.Agree
which then gives me, in this case, 29 records for the variable labelled "I
like school"
I have searched the FAQs and the Statalist archives and have read the
section on Expand in the manuals but have not come up with anything to help
me here.
I initially thought of creating 5 variables, one for each Value Label
e.g.
Variable Value
I like school A 2
I like school B 3
I like school C 5
I like school D 10
I like school E 9
But then I do not know how to collapse these 5 variables into 1 variable
with the appropriate associated values
Is there a simple way to do this?
Many thanks.
Donald W Spady MD, MSc
Departments of Pediatrics and Public Health Sciences
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University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta,
CANADA
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