Need Help!!!
Suppose, I have 4 questions regarding women's freedom of movement (Person who usually decides on go shopping, Person who usually decides on going to a health center or hospital alone, Person who usually decides on visits to your family or relatives, Person who usually decides on going to an outside town) and each question has 4 response categories like (0=not at all, 1= with husband, 2=with other,3=alone). Now I need to create a single variable named Women's mobility from that 4 questions. My question is can I combine all four question responses, that is in different columns into one column to create a single variable named Women's mobility? That is just merging 4 different response columns into one column by adding all columns as a row? For example, Charles is one respondent who answers 4 questions so 4 different columns now I make a single column by row-wise adding Charles's responses.
Please tell me whether it is the correct way to develop a new variable, rather than a mean score....
It is not clear that why do you want to combine all four columns into one . Data is being collected to see the freedom of women in terms of mobility or to find out the status of mobility among women. Better way is to test the hypothesis of no relation with the help of suitable statistical test for your data. As the data is non-parametric on some non-parametric test will be applied.
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