Written by Mike Spencer:
I work in a social science and economics department and a lot of our work is based on surveys of opinion. One question style we use a lot is likert, I’ve tried a few ways to present these results. My current favourite is a stacked bar graph, ordered by agreement.
I’ve created an example of this using data from a political blog. I was struggling to interpret the survey results in their table form, so spent a few minutes cleaning them in a spreadsheet and made the plots below. I don’t think the results entirely support the headline, but that’s news and politics for you!
The question asked was: In your personal experience/opinion, how would you rate the overall state of the following public services?
I work in a social science and economics department and a lot of our work is based on surveys of opinion. One question style we use a lot is likert, I’ve tried a few ways to present these results. My current favourite is a stacked bar graph, ordered by agreement.
I’ve created an example of this using data from a political blog. I was struggling to interpret the survey results in their table form, so spent a few minutes cleaning them in a spreadsheet and made the plots below. I don’t think the results entirely support the headline, but that’s news and politics for you!
The question asked was: In your personal experience/opinion, how would you rate the overall state of the following public services?