Descriptive Statistics for a survey using JASP
Hey there,
I`m doing an analysis of a survey for a uni project and tried using JASP. I want to do some plots of the answers for a first review using botplots. Doing them for individual questions works fine but i would like to have several boxplots next to each other since they use the same scale (a 1-7 scale [1 agree completely to 7 dont agree at all]). Im thinking of doing this via the split option but cant get it to work properly.
So i have several columns with data, each a different question and the answers as data in the sheet as numbers 1 through 7. How can i plot a boxplot with the 1-7 scale on the y-axis and split by the question (e.g. q1-q5) on the x-axis with an individual boxplot for each question. Do I need to add additional data to my table so i can use this new data (a new column with some data depending on the questions i want it to be split by) as a data set to split the others? Is there a better way?
Sorry, english isnt my first language and its a bit hard to explain what i want to do. Do you understand the problem i have?
Thank you in advance!😀
Comments
Hi,
Your data needs to be in another format to use the split function in JASP for multiple boxplots effectively.
In your case, instead of having separate columns for each question (Q1, Q2, Q3...), restructure your data to have one 'Question' column showing the question number and another 'Response' column for the responses.
This format allows JASP to plot multiple boxplots with 'Question' on the x-axis and 'Response' on the y-axis.
Use software like Excel to restructure your data if necessary.
Hope this helps.