KEYSCR= reassign scoring keys = 123..

This is only needed for complicated rescoring.

 

Specifies the score values assigned to response choices which match KEY1= etc. To assign responses matching key to the "missing" value of -1, make the corresponding KEYSCR= entry blank or some other non-numeric character.

 

When XWIDE=1, each value can only take one position, so that only KEY1= through KEY9= can be reassigned. KEY10= through KEY99= can also be used but keep their standard values of 10 through 99.

 

When XWIDE=2, each value takes two positions, and the values corresponding to all keys, KEY1= through KEY99=, can be reassigned.

 

Example 1: Three keys are used, and XWIDE=1.

 Response categories in KEY1= will be coded "1"

 Response categories in KEY2= will be coded "2"

 Response categories in KEY3= will be coded "3"

   KEYSCR=123 (standard)

 

Example 2: Three keys are used, and XWIDE=1.

 Response categories in KEY1= will be coded "2"

 Response categories in KEY2= will be coded "1"

 Response categories in KEY3= will be coded "1"

   KEYSCR=211

 

Example 3: Three keys are used, and XWIDE=2

 Response categories in KEY1= will be coded "3"

 Response categories in KEY2= will be coded "2"

 Response categories in KEY3= will be coded "1"

   KEYSCR=030201

 or

   KEYSCR=" 3 2 1"

 

Example 4: Three keys are used, and XWIDE=1

 Response categories in KEY3= will be coded "1"

 Response categories in KEY6= will be coded "missing"

 Response categories in KEY9= will be coded "3"

   KEY3=BACDCACDBA response keys

   KEY6=ABDADCDCAB

   KEY9=CCBCBBBBCC

   KEYSCR=xx1xxXxx3 scores for keys

 The "x"s correspond to unused keys, and so will be ignored.

The "X" corresponds to specified KEY6=, but is non-numeric and so will cause responses matching KEY6= to be ignored, i.e. treated as missing.

 

Example 5: Some items in a test have two correct answers, so two keys are used. Since both answers are equally good, KEY1= and KEY2= have the same value, specified by KEYSCR=. But some items have only one correct answer so in one key "*", a character not in CODES=, is used to prevent a match.

   CODES=1234

   KEY1 =23313141324134242113

   KEY2 =31*324321*3142314*** ; * is not in CODES=

   KEYSCR=11 both KEYs scored 1

 

Example 6: More than 9 KEYn= lines, together with KEYSCR=, are required for a complex scoring model for 20 items, but the original data are only one character wide.

 

Original data: Person name:  columns 1-10

 20 Item responses: columns 21-40

 

Looks like: M. Stewart..........1321233212321232134

 

Solution: reformat from XWIDE=1 to XWIDE=2

 

 TITLE="FORMAT= from XWIDE=1 to =2"

 FORMAT=(10A1,10X,20A1) ; 10 of Name, skip 10, 20 of responses

 NI=20

 NAME1=1

 ITEM1=11   Responses in column 11 of reformatted record

 XWIDE=2

 CODES="1 2 3 4 "  Original response now "response blank"

 KEY1 ="1 2 1 3 2 1 2 3 1 4 3 2 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 " Keying 20 items

 KEY2 ="2 1 2 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 3 3 2 2 * 2 1 "

 ....

 KEY10="3 3 3 2 3 3 4 2 3 * * * 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 "

 KEYSCR="1 2 3 2 2 2 3 4 1 4 " ; Renumbering 10 KEYn=

 &END