Recoding Reverse Keyed Items (1 --> 5 and 5 --> 1)

Administratore · **Joined:** Fri Mar 06, 2009 12:48 pm **Posts:** 1

I have done a survey where some items are reverse keyed. That means on a 5-point-Likert scales
1 = strongly disagree (and not strongly agree) and
5 = strongly agree (and not strongly disagree).

How can I calculate with reverse keyed items in SPSS?

Fierce · **Posted:** Fri Mar 06, 2009 5:11 pm

You can define reverse order when making charts or tables, but the easier way is to recode the values so you'll have it ready for any analysis you're about to run. Use TRANSFORM>RECODE INTO SAME VARIABLES, select the variable(s) you want to recode and define the values under the OLD AND NEW VALUES.

Code:

RECODE <VARIABLE NAME HERE> (1=5) (2=4) (4=2) (5=1).
EXECUTE.

Recoding Reverse Keyed Items (1 --> 5 and 5 --> 1)

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