Hi,

you should use multiple response tab under analyze tab of SPSS to get frequency of each response. 

Thanks a lot for your response. I tried it and multiple response tab is not activated...

can you share your data or its snapshot. 

Its something like this..

Your Gender Age Group Preference

Male 41-50 Yoga

Male 20-30 Yoga, Meditation

Female 31-40 Yoga, Meditation

Male 31-40 Meditation

Female 41-50 Nothing

I want to know how many people prefer yoga, how many prefer meditation etc.. But SPSS shows the result like this...

yoga, meditation 2

yoga 1

meditation 1

you have 3 variables right? in your variable view you have to name gender, age group and preference as your variables with type numeric. At column values set 1 and 2 as male and female, 1,2, and 3,  20-30, 31-40, 41-50 and 1,2 and 3 yoga, meditation and nothing.

in data view, enter your data 1 as male or 20-30 or yoga. same procedure for the rest data. I think the problem is how you enter the data.

i agree with Hazura, it is very important to know how we have entered data. If one individual has reported two or three preferences  and then enter them in seperate columns. Then apply multiple response by selecting all preference columns. 

Thanks a lot for your kind cooperation Dr. Hazura and Dr. Awnish !!!

Hi; you mention open ended questions in addition to MCQs? It might be worth using qualitative analysis software for these, such as NVivo. Just save the open ended responses in a Word file and then you can import them into the software for thematic analysis i.e. picking out the most frequently mentioned words and phrases from the responses.