Coding the answer to a questions as 0

Question

The original questionaire codes the answers 0-3. I cannot code an answer 0 in sosci survey, if I try to, 11 appears instead automatically.

Is there no way to code an answer to a question with 0? If not, how do I recode in SPSS or here? I should be able to interpret the answers, the way the developers of the questionnaire intended.

Thanks.

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> I cannot code an answer 0 in sosci survey, if I try to, 11 appears instead automatically.

How would you try?

Answer 1

SoSci Survey will encode response options from 1 on, for most of the question types.

To work with codes as of 0, you can either recode them into internal variables in SoSci Survey, using value(), the minus symbol and put().

Or you can do the recoding in SPSS, using COMPUTE x = y - 1.

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Ok thank you!