Introduction: Inputting Questionnaire Data versus Other Types of Data
This chapter shows how to create SAS datasets in a number of different ways, and it does this by illustrating how to input the types of data that are often obtained through questionnaire research. Questionnaire research generally involves distributing standardized instruments to a sample of participants, and asking them to respond by circling or checking fixed responses. For example, participants might be asked to indicate the extent to which they agree or disagree with a set of items by selecting a response along a 7-point Likert-type scale where 1 represents “strongly disagree” and 7 represents “strongly agree.”
Because this chapter (and much of the entire book, for that ...
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