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Reputation: 205

How to correlate a ten category variable?

Suppose we have a categorical variable X which can take on 10 values. There are counts inside each of these 10 categories. I want to see whether there are correlations between categories. How would I do this in SPSS? Is there a way to split X into 10 subvariables?

I go to Analyze ---> Correlate ---> Bivariate and can only find the variable X (not the 10 categories).

Upvotes: 1

Views: 501

Answers (1)

Jeromy Anglim
Jeromy Anglim

Reputation: 34907

It sounds like you have a single variable with mutually exclusive categories. If this is the case then if the variable equals a particular category, then that means it does not equal any other category. Therefore, it makes no sense to correlate such a variable.

If you do not have mutually exclusive categories (i.e., you have what is sometimes called a multi-variable) then your 10 response options would be represented as 10 separate variables in SPSS. You could then potentially use Analyze - correlate - bivariate to examine relationships between category co-occurrence.

Upvotes: 0

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