Example 11: Item responses two characters wide

The "Liking for Science" data (see RSA) is in file EXAM11.TXT. Each observation is on a rating scale where 0 means "dislike", 1 means "don't care/don't know" and 2 means "like". The data has been recorded in two columns as 00, 01 and 02. XWIDE= is used.

; This file is EXAM11.TXT

TITLE='LIKING FOR SCIENCE (Wright & Masters p.18)'

XWIDE=2                ; Responses are 2 columns wide

CODES=000102                ; Codes are 00 01 and 02

CLFILE=*                ; Category label filelist

00 Dislike                ; Category 00 in data file means "Dislike"

01 Neutral

02 Like

*                        ; End of category list

ITEM1=1                ; Items start in column 1

NI=25                        ; 25 Items

NAME1=51                ; Person id starts in column 51

NAMLMP=20                ; Show 20 characters of id on maps

TABLES=111111111111111111111111111111        ; All Tables

CURVES=111                ; Print all curves in Tables 2 and 21

IFILE = EXAM11IF.TXT                ; Output item measure file

PFILE = EXAM11PF.TXT        ; Output person measure file

SFILE = EXAM11SF.TXT        ; Output structure calibration file

RFILE = EXAM11RF.TXT        ; Output reformatted response file

XFILE = EXAM11XF.TXT        ; Output observation and residual file

UIMEAN = 455                ; User scaling: mean 455

USCALE = 94                ; 94 user units per logit

LINELENGTH = 0                ; Print with minimum of split lines

MAXPAGE = 0                ; Print with no page breaks in long tables

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