Please suggest a way of recoding a continuous variable into a 'Likert Scale' variable.
Lowest 20% should be translated to 1.
Next 20% should be translated to 2.
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Top 20% should be translated to 5.
Your help is greatly appreciated.
Nicholas Kormanik
Proc means, summary or univariate on the data requesting the appropriate percentiles.
Code if/then/else using those values OR a custom format assigning the values 1 to 5 (or possibly more meaningful text) to the raw values.
Or possibly Proc Rank using groups=5 to create a new variable but you would have to add 1 to the value as rank will create 0 to 4 for the value.
Proc means, summary or univariate on the data requesting the appropriate percentiles.
Code if/then/else using those values OR a custom format assigning the values 1 to 5 (or possibly more meaningful text) to the raw values.
Or possibly Proc Rank using groups=5 to create a new variable but you would have to add 1 to the value as rank will create 0 to 4 for the value.
Perhaps using 0 to 4 would work, too, as opposed to 1 to 5. I don't see that it would make any difference. So Proc Rank may be the one to use.
I would greatly prefer not having to put in specific values of the raw data, as I have a hundred such variables to recode.
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