Analyzing Likert Data
By Harry N. Boone, Deborah A. Boone. Journal of Extension, 2012
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This article provides information for Extension professionals on the correct analysis of Likert data. The analyses of Likert-type and Likert scale data require unique data analysis procedures, and as a result, misuses and/or mistakes often occur. This article discusses the differences between Likert-type and Likert scale data and provides recommendations for descriptive statistics to be used during the analysis. Once a researcher understands the difference between Likert-type and Likert scale data, the decision on appropriate statistical procedures will be apparent.
Subfields: Information Systems, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Social Psychology
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Citations in the corpus
- Comparing how entrepreneurs and managers represent the elements of the business model canvas (2018, methodology): “Following Boone and Boone (2012), a quantitative measure of each element could be created by computing an overall score from at least four Likert-type items.”
- Comparing Two Samples from an Individual Likert Question (2017, background): “The literature is sometimes confused between the comparison of samples using summed Likert scales and the comparison of samples for individual Likert items (Boone and Boone, 2012).”
- The Online Learning Self-Efficacy Scale: Its Adaptation into Turkish and Interpretation According to Various Variables (2020, methodology): “However, researchers argue that Likert item scores should be accepted as ordinal scale, because respondents do not actually feel equivalance between these intervals (Boone & Boone, 2012; Turan, Simsek & Aslan, 2015).”
- Using Likert Type Data in Social Science Research: Confusion, Issues and Challenges (2016, methodology): “Composite score can be calculated by transforming the data of each items of a scale using SPSS. Additionally, as per the need we can use Pearson’s r, t-test, ANOVA, and regression procedures (Boone & Boone, 2012).”
- Likert Scale: Explored and Explained (2015, methodology): “The scale used so can be labeled as Likert type and not Likert scale [16].”