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6 years ago in SPSS By Brijesh Sharma

Scales in SPSS

I am using SPSS in my study, and need to decide between ordinal and scale to use in my study.  I know they are different in meaning, but it seems SPSS treat them the same in calculation. Please tell me the difference between them. 
 

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By Varun T Answered 7 years ago

There are many types of scales in SPSS:
Ordinal scale: The variable is seen as ordinal when its value shows some intrinsic 
Nominal scale: On the other hand, a variable is nominal when it doesn’t represent intrinsic ranking.

By Luv Bhatia Answered 7 years ago

I don’t think SPSS scales need definition. I have seen many studies where they didn’t care about describing the scale of the variable. It is up to the researcher to understand the difference and choose tests appropriately.

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