Hello everyone

I have been asked to set up a database for a questionnaire that has already been written. I was going to set it up in epidata but my problem is how to deal with a question that asks people to rank options. The question gives a list of topics and asks the person filling in the questionnaire to rank them from 1-10 in order of importance. (It is for a city council and they want to know what young people are most concernred about so the choices are crime, employment, environment etc).

I thought in the qes I could just make a variable for each topic and enter the number the respondent puts beside it, but I don't know how to then analyse the answers, so I can find out what the top 10 issues are overall. If anyone has done this before and can offer a suggestion I would be grateful

thanks

Christine

Christine Roseveare Analyst Regional Public Health 570 9194 027 495 9671