Question

100 students enrolled in three courses completed a five item 'course satisfaction' questionnaire. Disregarding the identification variable, how many columns wide will the data file be when looking at it in the Data View of the SPSS Data Editor?

a. 6
b. 15
c. 100
d. 5

Answer 1

The data file in the SPSS Data Editor will be 15 columns wide, representing five columns for each of the three courses' questionnaire responses.

Step-by-step explanation:

If 100 students enrolled in three courses completed a five-item course satisfaction questionnaire, and we disregard the identification variable, the data file when looking at it in the Data View of the SPSS Data Editor will be 15 columns wide. This encompasses five columns for the responses from each course, for a total of 5 items multiplied by 3 courses. Since we are not including an additional column for the identification variable, the options a, c and d can be discarded, leaving option b as the correct one.