Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/286172 
Title (translated): 
Ordinal treatment of qualitative scales used by the Center for Sociological Research
Year of Publication: 
2019
Citation: 
[Journal:] Revista de Métodos Cuantitativos para la Economía y la Empresa [ISSN:] 1886-516X [Volume:] 28 [Year:] 2019 [Pages:] 124-142
Publisher: 
Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla
Abstract (Translated): 
Qualitative scales formed by linguistic terms are used by different disciplines to determine preferences and different aspects of individuals' lives. Although it is usual to assign numbers to the response categories of scales, it is not suitable when individuals perceive different proximities between the consecutive categories of the scale, that is, when scales are not uniform. In this paper, an ordinal procedure is proposed to order a set of alternatives from the assessments given by a group of individuals through a qualitative scale not necessarily uniform. This procedure is based on ordinal proximities between the response categories of scales. The proposed procedure is illustrated with an example taken from the Barometer of the Center for Sociological Research of May 2011.
Subjects: 
surveys
questionnaires
qualitative scales
imprecision
CIS
JEL: 
C20
C83
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Article

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