In addition to measuring statements of agreement, Likert scales can measure other variations such as frequency, quality, importance, and likelihood, etc. If you make this assumption, and I don’t think you should make it, then you can use the formula described in the post, which produces a mean value of 3.94. can I ask where to find the explanation about this scales? Thank you so much for your quick answers§: I will be dividing the statements according to 4 hypothesis. plz tell me the difference b/w likert scale and ordinal scale as i have to defend myself and also share how to calculate ranges for means of a likert scale…. Hi Achelleas, i need ur ideas on the tools to be used in Experimental Research entitled: ANTI-PRURITIC ACTIVITY OF PLUMERIA ACUMINATA (KALACHUCHI) BARK LATEX IN ALBINO MICE WITH INDUCED LOCAL PRURITUS. If you think they can, do so at your own risk. Copy-pasting below something I wrote about this a while ago, with some references: ‘There has been some controversy regarding the nature of the data produced by self-reported scales, these being considered a grey area between ordinal and continuous variables (Field, 2009; Kinnear & Gray, 2008). When you say Likert scale is it an actual scale or just one Likert item? However, if you are doing a survey using Likert Scale, then you want to think carefully about the results. What is the best way to analyze the data ? they were measured on 1 to 6-point scale. 124 0.4526 So how do I calculate from the respondents’ answers and how do I key in in the SPSS? The table below shows a hypothetical distribution of answers: If I were interested in knowing the beliefs of a ‘typical person’ (whatever that might be), then might be tempted to calculate a mean score for this data. (Unsure, though!) My inclination is towards calculating a mean of this set of data. Hello Dr. Achilleas, Thanks very much for your prompt response and very useful suggestions. 5 – Very Much Significant From 3:41 until 4:20 represents (agree). Overall, there is no single ‘right’ method. i want to use mean point to identify the activities in cut off point . This doesn’t make sense when labelling all the options, as this clearly makes the data ordinal (or nominal). 4-like much ), the mean attitude might make some sense. I already did analyse the cornbach alpha and found α = .818. Specifically, what sparked my interest was one study in the collection, which used Likert scales to record participants’ attitudes towards a certain educational construct. https://achilleaskostoulas.com/2013/09/09/four-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-likert-scales/, what will be a sample size of a population of 550. SPSS 15 made simple. This would help readers see how all the responses are distributed, without any loss of detail. But I’m having difficulty finding the best way to analyze the responses. Very larg level, large level, nolevel, low-level, very low level questions considered a likert scale questions. $\endgroup$ – Glen_b Mar 5 '19 at 2:34 $\begingroup$ I have added more details of my hypotheses into the original post. ‘Mean’ is a technical word for ‘average’. what statistical tool I should apply ? First, find the linear transformation so that in the new scale, the minimum is 0 and the maximum is 1. web browser that Afterwards, number one which is the least value in the scale was added in order to identify the maximum of this cell. What I want to do is, for example. Assigning a cut-off reduces that range of evenly-space values to two categories. These data are just like the ones that Likert-type items produce, with the added advantage that -by virtue of being evenly distributed- they can be used in more sophisticated ways. If re-calculating the variables is no longer an option, I think that the best way forward would be to acknowledge in the write-up that this was not the statistically optimal treatment, and then go on to argue that it is nevertheless a robust procedure that will generate plausible results, even when its underlying assumptions are violated. I think that what you should do, under the circumstances, is forget about the mean altogether. The short answer is, yes, you can calculate the mean. © 2011-2020 Achilleas Kostoulas. say I have 31 responses and say responses were (5,1,8,14,3) for a scale of 1-5. 1 1.00 – 1.79 Needs Improvement, Frequency % What test are you planning to do? It consists of 30 items. Likert scales are clearly ordered category scales, as required for correlational work, and the debate aong methodologists is whether they can be treated as equal interval scales. This means that each question placed next to the Likert scale will look as below: Sample statement from SUS How to Calculate Your Usability Score using SUS. and 3= not implemented yet Discovering statistics using SPSS (3rd ed.). 3. I haven’t used a reference because I was writing from memory (In the post, I only intended to mention statistics in passing). Learnt quite a lot. May God bless you and may you help more more people then on. Good luck with your project :). The way I understand it, likelihood or probability can, in principle at least, be measured on a continuous cline ranging from ‘impossible’ (0%) to ‘certain’ (100%). With 15 of 20 people selecting a favorable value on the Likert scale, we have an effect size of 75%, which is certainly an effect worth taking seriously. If the responses are very different, you should then try to account for what might be causing the difference. Im my case the data is scewed as many responses were low values (1 or 2) on the likert scale for certain eating behaviour subscales. You can calculate a median value, following instructions found elsewhere in this blog. That’s unfortunate, as it means that the scale items do not really measure the same thing. I used two groups, 20 respondents each. The mode is the easiest to calculate: it’s just the option that most people chose. Strongly Agree = 1, Agree = 2 etc.). One way to approach this problem would be to run a cross-tabulation. I am using an eating behaviour questionnaire with 1-5 Likert response scale. I don’t mind having it in my inbox. e. Storm Surge. Those who are not familiar with the fascinating minutiae of quantitative research can find a discussion of Likert scaling and ordinal data in the section that immediately follows. You should use the median instead. 2. responses pertaining to earthquakes against responses pertaining to fire. (1997). But an argument came up that the mean and standard deviation was the appropriate technique for the kind of data I collected. To put it in the simplest terms possible: Ordinal data cannot yield mean values. In that case, you just report that number, that’s not considered a problem. So, rather than double checking on such matters, we tend to focus our feedback on more substantive aspects of the research (e.g., Are the claims commensurate to the scope of the study? Also would it be wrong to replace the missing values with the ‘Persons mean’ or ‘Item mean’ as suggested by Downey & King 1998.Also how about multiple imputation? Hello, my case is a bit different: I applied a 4-item scale anchored from 1(strongly disagree) to 5(strongly agree) to evaluate a certain variable (eg. It is the nature of the peer-review process that the people who review academic articles can make intelligent substantive judgements on the findings, but might not always have the requisite background to comment on the research process (or visa versa) . my research operating model is based on Structural Equation Modelling (SEM). My feeling is that for this kind of calculation to work, you need to assume that the ‘distance’ between “strongly disagree” and “disagree” is the same as the one between “disagree” and “not sure”, and so on. I read from sources that having 0 means “missing data”, if this is so, can I use 1 instead of 0 for “no formal education”? No, it’s not. 4- very good In a Likert scale survey, respondents don't choose between 'yes/no,' there are specific choices based on 'agreeing' or 'disagreeing' on a particular survey question. Hello Iftikhar. Hope that helps, and good luck with your project. A Likert template example would range from typical multiple-choice options which may include Strongly Agree, Agree, No opinion, Disagree and Strongly Disagree. Your scale reflects this, except that for reasons of simplicity, you sensibly asked respondents to position themselves on a scale with 10 equidistant (evenly spread out) anchors. The median is a type of average value, like the mean, except that it shows the number that is exactly in the middle of the data, i.e., at the same distance from the highest and lowest value in the dataset. Dr Kostoulas, thank you very much! I am currently drafting my graduate thesis on knowledge management (KM) and climate resilience (KM). This post in particular (https://achilleaskostoulas.com/2013/09/09/four-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-likert-scales/) lists a reasonably good collection of literature that you can consult. Medical Education, 38(12), 1217-1218. The way you will use your data depends on your research questions – not your instrument, i.e. A Likert scale instrument produces interval-scale numeric values. I am not sure if your responses to the questions that were asked by two other persons on 26 March 2014 @ 01.49 and 16 March 2015 @ 17.58 applies to the question I have asked below. Thank you, Sir. This would compare the actual responses of people in the ‘yes’ and ‘no’ categories, against what they might have responded if cookie knowledge did not influence responses. 2-disagree To me this makes a lot of sense that an individual receives for example a score of 3,4 on intrinsic motivation. The problem with both methods that you’re proposing is that you are making a somewhat bold assumption about the data. Also, what if I ask them to rank the climate risks in the community from 1 – 5 (5 being the frequent climate risk in the community, 1 being low climate risk): a. Drought IF [Score]<3 THEN 1 ELSEIF [Score]=3 THEN .5 ELSE 0 END Total Count Negative. I already put them into SPSS and measured the median of each scale. please help me hot compute pearson corretaltion of four point likert scale variable and students final grade of students in mathematics.thank you. Thank you so much for your time. Many people, including myself, would argue that this is an abuse of statistics. Hi, Sir. Therefore, the mean (and standard deviation) The data I gathered were the scores of the students per grade level and the number of errors per item. This, however, is almost the extent of what one can do with such data. They are very flexible and very useful, provided you use them carefully. There is another series of questions on a 1-10 scale, where I ask respondents to tell, “how often do they do the following online: “check information’s author”, “check author’s credentials”, etc.” Here is how to easily find the right linear transformation to convert one Likert scale to another. on a continuum from strongly agree to strongly disagree, and makes the assumption that attitudes can be measured. Field, A. I used a 3- point Likret scale (agree, disagree, uncertain) to measure attitudes towards writing. Thanks for your kind comments. But clearly, the 7-point scale is also designed as a ‘Likert-type’ scale. if the first cell is "agree", in the next colum it should be seen as "2"; in the second cell, if the value is "strongly disagree", it should be "5". Every now and then, reviewers have to take it on faith that the people who conducted a study knew what they were doing, and they must trust that there are no major flaws in the methods. The response categories in Likert I feel that my data should be nominal. How to summarise Likert scale data using SPSS, On Likert scales, ordinal data and mean values. I am conducting a regression analysis and I would like to know how to find the value for the each factor. (Jamieson, 2004). One last question and I leave you and your topic alone! Please shed a light to my concern. I am not sure I understand what you mean by cut-off point. (A Likert scale is used to rate each item on a response scale. Firstly, I would be need to assume that the psychological distance between ‘strong agreement’ and ‘agreement’ is the same as that between ‘agreement’ and ‘no opinion’. Hi Sir, Burns, N., & Grove, S. K. (1997). (eds) Handbook of Disease Burdens and Quality of Life Measures. And even if we forced them into the questionnaire, that would constitute a gross distortion of psychological attitudes and the social world to fit our statistical mould.” Can you kindly elaborate on this or direct me to the appropriate resources on which these statements are based? Sounds great, then! To avoid this, it is usually safer to calculate the median, not the mean, of the data. In nearly all cases, not only is it mathematically wrong, taking the average of a Likert-scale variable will not provide useful answers to the questions managers can use to make actionable decisions. The last update was on February 2020. This does not mean that such procedures are optimal practice, and Norman does not make this argument anyway. What are your null and alternative? Just to be on the safe side :). Technically speaking, a Likert scale an ‘ordinal scale with an interval answer option’. Most of these use an agree/disagree scale where 1 = strongly disagree and 5 – strongly agree. from 10 to 50 possible points) to the neutral average score of the questionnaire (i.e. It is one of the most widely used question types in a survey. It is composed of 12 items per disaster (3 questions for earthquake prevention and mitigation, 3 questions for earthquake preparedness, 3 questions for earthquake response and 3 questions for earthquake recovery and rehabilitation). If you go back to your data, you will see a new variable has been created. I want to find if there’s a significant difference between 2 groups and also among 5 groups. No worries! hi. About this post: This post was originally written in 2013 for my blog (www.achilleaskostoulas.com). People who choose response (2) like this snack more than those who choose responses (3), (4) and (5), and so on. I just want to leave this comment for you are cool- that you answer the queries of my co-readers and co-researchers. Gud eve sir. If you can’t do it, that’s sort of ok, but you will want to note that in your report, maybe by writing something along the following lines: ‘the internal consistency of the scale was not statistically measured, but it can be inferred from the semantic similarity of the questions’ (this means that the wording of the questions makes you reasonably confident that the scales can be combined). I will do that. I’m sorry but I’m quite confused… when you illustrate the formula to calculate the mean, on the title of that paragraph it says “THE WRONG WAY TO DO IT” so does this mean that the formula illustrated is the wrong one? This means that each question placed next to the Likert scale will look as below: Sample statement from SUS How to Calculate Your Usability Score using SUS. Paulhus (1984) found that more desirable personality characteristics were reported when people were asked to write their names, addresses and telephone numbers on their questionnaire than when they told not to put identifying information on the questionnaire. The length of the cells is determined below: From 1 to 1.80 represents (strongly disagree). statements. 2) I would like to check if changes occur during 3 time points. The obvious downside is that it will make it harder to compare results with other researchers who have used the scale. 5- excellent (2009). Hi.. thank you so much for your post.. it is extremely helpful.. Is there a connection between mean and the bar graph percentage and can I link the two? The mean in a Likert scale can’t be found because you don’t know the “distance” between the data items. So, I guess that you could go ahead as you described, and – if this is some kind of student project you’re doing – add some remarks in the methodology section explaining why you are doing what you are doing. If you treat the data as nominal, the only measure of central tendency you can use is the mode (i.e., you can only report which answer is the most common). I am not sure I understand what you are asking. What you can do is describe the distribution of answers for every question, by showing the bar chart, and a table with the absolute number and percentage for each response option. There are several ways to do this (e.g., insert the mode, use a central value as a default answer), but if you are working on an academic paper you must document how you addressed this problem in the methods section of your paper. 5-like very much Your choice of statistical methods (parametric or non-parametric) will depend on whether you consider the scale to be ordinal or interval; it will also depend on the distribution of your data. If you treat them as ordinal data, then you can also calculate the median, which is a slightly more refined measure of central tendency. 0 or 1? etc, Well, that would depend a lot on what you’re trying to find out, wouldn’t it? Convert likert scale numbers to percentages (too old to reply) BW@Intuit 2004-02-03 22:26:05 UTC. Likert scales: how to (ab) use them. I analysed my data using frequency count and percentages which to me shows more clarity. 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