Using other coding tools
If you normally use a coding tool other than IBM SPSS Text Analytics for Surveys, you can still make use of the UNICOM Intelligence scripts provided for this analysis process, provided that your coding tool is able to save your coded data to a .sav file. To avoid having to make significant changes to the scripts, the format of your .sav file must match the format of the .sav file created by IBM SPSS Text Analytics for Surveys, which is as follows:
▪Each coded question must be saved as a multiple dichotomy set, which contains one numeric variable for each category that you defined for that question. Each numeric variable must have two value labels only: “Yes” which corresponds to a value of 1, and “No” which corresponds to a value of 0. For every record in the case data, each numeric variable must be set to 1 to specify that the category is selected or 0 to specify that the category is not selected.
▪The name of the multiple dichotomy set must be the same as the original variable in the UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Server survey. For example, the name might be FavoriteMovie for a text question, or CoffeeBrands.Other for an “other specify” open-ended response to a categorical question.
▪The respondent's serial number must be saved to a numeric variable called Respondent.Serial, which should not have any value labels. The value must match the value in the UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Server data.
▪Any other variables in the .sav file will be ignored, provided that their names do not match the names of variables in the UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Server data.
To use the
.sav file that you have created, follow the steps in
Processing a wave that requires coding.
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