Abstract
Results obtained from surveys are often a mixture of quantitative, ca-tegorical, and textual data that leads to a mixed multiple table. Multiple factor analysis, extended to consider textual variables, can be applied to this kind of table. When survey questionnaires are filled in two (or more) languages, an additional difficulty arises. The aim of this work is to adapt the extended multiple factor analysis to these multilingual data. The methodology is applied to the analysis of a survey including both closed and open-ended questions in two languages, Basque and Spanish.
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This work has been partially supported by Spanish Ministry of Education and Science and FEDER (grant SEJ2005-00741/ECON). Financial support from Grupo de investigación del sistema universitario vasco IT-321-07 is gratefully acknowledged.
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Bécue-Bertaut, M., Fernández-Aguirre, K., Modroño-Herrán, J.I. (2010). Analysis of a Mixture of Closed and Open-Ended Questions in the Case of a Multilingual Survey. In: Skiadas, C. (eds) Advances in Data Analysis. Statistics for Industry and Technology. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-4799-5_3
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