survey

1. Can the reliability be used using Cronbach's alpha when the base of the respondent for each question is different?

For example, in the survey on job satisfaction, questions A1 to A10 consist of items related to work-life balance. At this time, the survey was conducted for all respondents in A1~A5, only white-collar in A6~A8, and only blue-collar in A9~A10. At this time, is it not unreasonable to measure the...
2. How are svymean, svyby, etc useful to understand a causal relationship?

I am sitting on a data project and got totally stuck on following question: Justify which population quantities of the variables included in your project could be of interest (e.g. svymean(), svytotal(), svyby(), svyciprop()) How could they provide you with a better understanding about the...
3. How to compare two school classes with a survey?

I am doing research at a school. I want to see what effects a certain teaching method has on the students. For this I have one class which is the control group and another class in which I am applying the teaching method. At the end of the experiment I want to take surveys in both classes and...
4. 4 or 5 point likert scale - ordinal variable?

Hello everyone. I am new here but look forward to exchanging with you. I need to analyze online survey data - which I didn't design, but it is so confusing from the start. The survey data looks like... The survey was conducted before and after a "program". It is not paired as the survey...
5. HELP WITH DATASETS COMPARISON

Hello everyone, I am a stats-beginner and I need help to understand if it is possible to compare two datasets. I am currently looking at the Residential Energy Consumption Surveys (RECS) databases, specifically to the 2015 and 2009 surveys. There have been some major changes in the 2015 survey...
6. Survey Data Analysis (Likert Scale and yes/no)

Hear me out. You can help me. I have never taken a statistics course and no very little about analysis. I was given a survey project at work. Survey questions are multiple choice (choose one), and Likert scale (choose one). Some questions are conditional. I have the raw data/results. I'm being...
7. Fixing behavioural difference of demographics

Currently collecting employment/working satisfaction data from survey at different countries. Same set of questions is used. I have come across that people from some countries tend to be more optimistic/pessimistic than others. How can I take their answering behaviour into consideration when...
8. Fixing different demographics behaviour on survey data

Currently collecting employment/working satisfaction data from survey at different countries. Same set of questions is used. I have come across that people from some countries tend to be more optimistic/pessimistic than others. How can I take their answering behaviour into consideration when...
9. Statistical Test for multiple choice questions

I Iaunched a survey recently where I have the following types of questions - 1) A multiple choice question (where users can mark more than one correct answer), let's call it variable a. 2) A single choice answer type question (radio button type), let's call it categorical variable b. 3) A...
10. Large Sample Surveys

Dear Forum, I encountered an employee satisfaction survey report which sampled 50,000 employees (try not to laugh, that's a sample not the population). The authors reported % agreement based on Likert scales, which is not great, but ok, and compared said "scores" to a normative benchmark (for...
11. How can evaluate the significance of unbalanced variables?

We have a questionnaire which has a question with three options: "a", "b", and "c". All participants are allowed to choose one of these three options. "a" represents the condition "X" and, "b" and "c" both represent the condition "Y". Our goal is to compare the condition "X" with the condition...
12. Survey Data Analysis

Hello, I am interpreting some data that was calculated by someone else and initially I was confused how this person got these numbers. So I emailed the office that oversees the analysis of this information and their explanation still left me a little confused. Hopefully someone can clarify...
13. Survey uncertainty with a given population proportion

Hello! I have to estimate the uncertainty of the result of a survey where there sample size was defined to have an uncertainty of 2.76%, based on p a p value of 0.5. The 2.76% error is calculated assuming a 50% population proportion, which is a worst case scenario assumption: size...
14. Analyzing & weighing satisfaction survey data results.

I have a question for the group, say I'm a restaurant owner that distributes a satisfaction survey to my customers, asking them to rate multiple aspects of their visit on a scale from 1-5 (1 being terrible, 5 being excellent), then say I also ask them how important/significant is each aspect...
15. Which analysis for a survey question asking how frequently a group do an activity ?

I surveyed a group of photographers and asked them how frequently they used a particular type of lens for a specific type of photograph. I now want to find out which lens or lenses are the most commonly used for each type of photograph. There were four lens types and five types of photographs...
16. Number of responses above a threshold after considering survey error

I am interested in how many people in my survey of people earn between $50,000 and$54,999. I construct a paper survey which asks for income in $5,000 bands. 200 people respond that they earn between$45,000 and $49,999.99 20 people respond that they earn between$50,000 and \$54,999.99...
17. Survey on how frequently a group use a particular device: Which analysis methods?

I surveyed a group of photographers and asked them how frequently they used a particular type of lens for a specific type of photograph. I now want to find out which lens or lenses are the most commonly used for each type of photograph. There were four lens types and five types of photographs...
18. Limited multiple response data - analysis and sample size calculation

Hello all, I am a relative novice at statistics and have run into a problem working out how to analyse some data I will hopefully soon be acquiring. I would appreciate advice. The data What I want to do is compare the responses of a survey question of two groups of subjects to see if...
19. Looking for Statistically Significant Differences between questions

I would need to find a test to see if there are statistically significant differences between the responses to 100 questions which I administered to 30 participants. The responses range from 0 to 100. Of course I would like to rule out outliers (which I can deal with), but I need to compare...
20. Regression on Survey analysis across 50 states

I ran a survey across all 50 states in the US. The goal is to see if there is a correlation between people's love for the state and the population growth % over 5 years. The survey has 15 questions - all on Likert scale (1 to 5 Strongly Disgaree to Strongly Agree) - questions about people's...