Someone recently requested help producing a pie chart in SPSS;
unfortunately, I hit the "D" key too quickly, hoping someone else would
reply; as that hasn't happened yet, I'll try to help.
You have your data in 3 columns, for the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd most important
items from a list of 23; each row represents a separate respondent. You
want a pie chart showing how many respondents (as a proportion) selected
an item as any one of the top 3; that is, if you had 50 respondents, and
all 50 selected item #12 as either 1st, 2nd, or 3rd in importance, then
the pie chart would represent item #12 with 1/3 (50/150) of the total
area.
There may be a more esoteric method of reconfiguring your data, but I
would just use the old cut and paste method. This way, if you had 50
respondents, you would have 3 rows for each respondent, for a total of 150
rows (and only one column of data). This wouldn't allow you to identify
which of the items was selected #1 the most, but the Custom Tables
function of SPSS (from the original data set) would let you do that.
Does this help? If not, I can always produce some more gibberish.
Frank
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University of Evansville email [log in to unmask]
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