Weighted response with NA

[rbb101]

I have a questionnaire that is broken down into 5 sections or phases. Each
section has 2 questions with a possible score of 1-3. The responses to the
two questions are added together to get the section score.

For example, questions [Neg1] and [Neg2] are added together to get
[NegScore]. But only these two questions also have the possibility of an
“N/A†response.

Each section score is then added to arrive at the overall questionnaire
score.

I am trying to figure out how to apply a weight to each section that takes
into account the possibility of an NA response.

With no N/A responses the weights would be:

Section

InvScore 30%
CovScore 5%
NegScore 15%
DocScore 25%
ProScore 25%

With an N/A response, the weight in [NegScore] needs to be redistributed
equally among the other 4 sections since that section does not apply:

InvScore 33.75%
CovScore 8.75%
NegScore 0%
DocScore 28.75%
ProScore 28.75%

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to accomplish this or a better
approach to handling weighted questions with NA responses.

 

[Stefan Hoffmann]

hi,

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to accomplish this or a better
approach to handling weighted questions with NA responses.

Add the weights of the sections which NA. Divide it through the number
of sections with answers. This will give you your offset to add to the
weights.


mfG
--> stefan <--

 

[rbb101]

Here is my original post. Not sure what happened:

I have a questionnaire that is broken down into 5 sections or phases. Each
section has 2 questions with a possible score of 1-3. The responses to the
two questions are added together to get the section score.

For example questions [Neg1] and [Neg2] are added together to get
[NegScore]. But these two questions also have the possibility of an “N/Aâ€
response.

Each section score is then added to arrive at the overall questionnaire
score.

I am trying to figure out how to apply a weight to each section that takes
into account the possibility of an NA response.

With no N/A responses the weights would be:

Section

InvScore 30%
CovScore 5%
NegScore 15%
DocScore 25%
ProScore 25%

With an N/A response, the weight in [NegScore] needs to be redistributed
equally among the other 4 sections since that section does not apply:

InvScore 33.75%
CovScore 8.75%
NegScore 0%
DocScore 28.75%
ProScore 28.75%

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to accomplish this or a better
approach to handling weighted questions with NA responses.

 

[Stefan Hoffmann]

hi,

Here is my original post. Not sure what happened:

I wrote you an answer...
Is there anything vague about it?


mfG
--> stefan <--