Re: multiple response set

[Ben Pfaff]

On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 02:36:57PM +0100, news wrote:
> On 08/01/2015 06:54, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> >On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 12:32:26AM +0100, F. Thomas wrote:
> >>I found the MRSETS command which allows to analyse multiple reponse
> >>questions;
> >>But the MULT RESPONSE command has not yet been implemented, according to the
> >>manual.
> >>So how to analyse mult response questions ? What can you do with MRSETS when
> >>you have no Mult response frequencies or tables ?
> >
> >There is no such functionality yet.  MRSETS is implemented to allow the
> >.sav file format to be more completely supported, but multiple response
> >sets are not otherwise useful.
> >
> 
> This is a pity. The multiple response format is a widely used in survey
> research and few stats programs have a proc to analyse them.
> 
> Having this opportunity in PSPP would strongly increase its usefulness for a
> wider audience.

It's good to know that.  No one has mentioned it before, to the best of
my recollection.

> >>And what does the cryptic sentence mean (manual p.113)
> >>Otherwise, multiple response sets are currently used only by third party
> >>software.
> >>Could you please be more specific ? Which third party software do you mean ?
> >
> >Software other than PSPP.
> 
> This was already evident to me. But which one ? SPSS ?

That's all I know about.