Hello everyone,
I barely have any experience with stata, I've only made myself familiar with the surface so far and know some basic commands. Maybe someone can help me with this:
For my paper, I want to analyze how populistic opinions influence one's voting behavior. I'm recreating a study that was made of the German election in 2017 with new data for the election in 2021.
In the data set I'm using, there are 15 likert scaled variables measuring populistic opinions, answers going from 1 (fully agree) to 5 (fully disagree).
First, I'd like to create an index that gives me one average value for each person. If I got it correctly, I have to take out the missings first via mvdecode q51c, mv (-99 = .) and then generate an index by adding all variables and dividing them by 15.
I've tried doing this with three variables first, to check if I'm doing it correctly or not. In the screenshot below, you see the results I got, but I'm not exactly sure how to interpret them and know if I'm on the right path or not.

Thanks.
I barely have any experience with stata, I've only made myself familiar with the surface so far and know some basic commands. Maybe someone can help me with this:
For my paper, I want to analyze how populistic opinions influence one's voting behavior. I'm recreating a study that was made of the German election in 2017 with new data for the election in 2021.
In the data set I'm using, there are 15 likert scaled variables measuring populistic opinions, answers going from 1 (fully agree) to 5 (fully disagree).
First, I'd like to create an index that gives me one average value for each person. If I got it correctly, I have to take out the missings first via mvdecode q51c, mv (-99 = .) and then generate an index by adding all variables and dividing them by 15.
I've tried doing this with three variables first, to check if I'm doing it correctly or not. In the screenshot below, you see the results I got, but I'm not exactly sure how to interpret them and know if I'm on the right path or not.
Thanks.
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