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Tabulation of multiple responses

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  • Ben Jann

    (ETH Zurich)

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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. Copyright 2005 by StataCorp LP.

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Volume (Year): 5 (2005)
Issue (Month): 1 (March)
Pages: 93-122
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Handle: RePEc:tsj:stataj:v:5:y:2005:i:1:p:93-122

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Keywords: mrtab; mrgraph; mrsvmat; multiple responses; multiple testing; tabulate;

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  1. Nicholas J. Cox, 2004. "Speaking Stata: Graphing categorical and compositional data," Stata Journal, StataCorp LP, vol. 4(2), pages 190-213, June.
  2. Roger Newson, 2003. "Confidence intervals and p-values for delivery to the end user," Stata Journal, StataCorp LP, vol. 3(3), pages 245-269, September.
  3. Nicholas J. Cox & Ulrich Kohler, 2003. "Speaking Stata: On structure and shape: the case of multiple responses," Stata Journal, StataCorp LP, vol. 3(1), pages 81-99, March.
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