Responses were grouped into three types comprising those who strongly agreed or agreed into positive RTW-expectations, those answering 'neither agree nor disagree' into uncertain RTW-expectations and those either disagreeing or strongly disagreeing into negative RTW-expectations.
An anti-abortion group, with signs saying things like "Abortion is anti-feminist," chanted one thing; we chanted another, a conversation politely disagreeing into infinity.
To do this, the categories of 'strongly agree'agreeree', and 'somewhat agree' were merged into one overall 'agree' category, as were the categories of 'strongly disagree'disagreeree', and 'somewhat disagree' into a single 'disagree' category.
For Likert questions, we collapsed "strongly disagree" and "somewhat disagree" into one category ("disagree") and collapsed "strongly agree" and "somewhat agree" into another ("agree").
Because of the asymmetrical distribution we decided to combine the answer choices 3 5 (3 = undecided, 4 = disagree, 5 = completely disagree) into one (3 = undecided, disagree and completely disagree).
After collecting data, we collapsed the Likert scale (quite agree, agree, neutral, quite disagree and disagree) into three grades (agree, neutral, and disagree) to facilitate the data analysis.
In looking at the dangers posed to the population by smoking, we generated two categories of either agree or disagree by combining strongly agree and agree into one and disagree and neither agree nor disagree into another.
Percent distributions are presented in three major groups which combined strongly agree and agree into one category and disagree and strongly disagree into another category, while neither agree nor disagree remained as the third category.
All Likert survey responses were categorized into either positive or neutral/negative responses, combining "strongly agree" and "agree" into the positive category, and "neutral", "disagree" and "strongly disagree" into the neutral/negative response.
In considering the dangers posed to the population by others' smoking, we generated two categories of the responses into either 'agree' or 'disagree', by combining 'strongly agree' and 'agree' into one category and 'neither agree nor disagree'disagreeree' and 'strongly disagree' into a second category for the analysis.
