How to Change Words to Numerical Data

Description

This is a guide that teaches how to change words to numerical data for quantitative data analysis. It explains with examples how to move change words to statistics; how to get statistics from words. Many people do not know how to proceed when the data they have to analyse quantitatively is initially presented in the form of words. For example, when data for gender is presented in the form of “male” and “female” many people and especially students may not know how to go about transforming this data to numerical data which can then be analysed statistically. Learning how to change words to numerical data is important especially if you are going to engage in quantitative research, such as collecting data through a survey or using questionnaires.

The guide uses simple language in explaining different concepts so that you clearly understand how to go about word data analysis or words data analysis. The guide starts with a brief explanation of the different types of data that you may encounter in research before focusing on the important issue of how to create numbers from words (or change qualitative to quantitative data, so to say). The guide also presents examples of data analysis involving quantitative data that was originally presented in the form of words and so shows how to go from text to statistics. The guide also touches on derived variables and provides examples of how to create new variables from other variables.

If you are new to statistics and quantitative research, you will probably find this guide useful. This will more so be the case if you need to analyse data that requires you to first change words to statistics or create numbers from words. Learn not only how to change words to numerical data for statistical analysis but also how to statistically analyse this data through the use of examples done in excel. Here is an introduction to changing words to numerical data.