Re: st: survey answers imported from google, checkbox type

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

See (for example)

-tabsplit- in -tab_chi- (SSC)

FAQ     . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  Dealing with multiple responses
        . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  N. J. Cox and U. Kohler
        4/05    How do I deal with multiple responses?
                http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data/multresp.html

SJ-5-1  st0082  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tabulation of multiple responses
        (help _mrsvmat, mrgraph, mrtab if installed)  . . . . . . . .  B. Jann
        Q1/05   SJ 5(1):92--122
        introduces new commands for the computation of one- and
        two-way tables of multiple responses

SJ-3-1  pr0008   Speaking Stata: On structure & shape: the case of mult. resp.
        . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  N. J. Cox & U. Kohler
        Q1/03   SJ 3(1):81--99                                   (no commands)
        discussion of data manipulations for multiple response data
Nick
njcoxstata@gmail.com

On 18 April 2013 08:29, Steven Young <youngazn@gmail.com> wrote:

> So I have a survey with answers imported from Google.
>
> One of the questions asks "Which have you heard of" and lists 4 items below
> in a checkbox fashion (tick all that you know).
>
> Google aggregated the data into one cell, so a person (each row) may answer
> "a, b, d", a second may answer "a, b, c" and a third may answer "a, d".
> Unfortunately each of these answers are quite long... not as short as a, b,
> c, d. I also cannot change how Google "aggregates" this data into one cell.
>
> Now the issue I have is that when it's imported to stata, it will list in
> one cell, each of the selected items, separated by comma.
>
> How do I go about making a "do" file that will go through this and find out
> what each person answered, ie make sub-columns of answer choice a, b, c, d,
> and then assigning a value of 1 to each column that the person answered?
>
> For instance if Joe answered a, b, d, then his answer columsn will be 1, 1,
> 0, 1.
>
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