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Analysing Nosacq50 Part 2
Analysing Nosacq50 Part 2
Use the Excel file found under the section regarding submitting your data.
Option 2
Calculate the results yourself by following the procedures below, as well as using statistical programs
like SAS, SPSS or STATA
The questionnaire is organized in 7 dimensions with between 6-9 items each. The items can be
divided into two groups – those asked in a positive way and those items asked in a reversed
(negated) way.
Positively Reversed
formulated formulated
items items
Dimension7-workers'trustinA44,A46,A48,A50 A45.A47.A49
efficacyofsafetysystems(7
items):
All the items in the questionnaire are answered in the same way (Lichert scale 1-4), but have to be
scored dependent of the formulation of the question:
In order to calculate the mean score for a single dimension the easiest way is to enter the observed
values into a spreadsheet like Excel and then subsequently calculate the true means.
For dimension 1 the true mean for one person will be:
Only answered items will be entered into the calculation. If a person has answered all 9 items the
denominator ‘Number of answered items’ for dimension 1 will be 9. If a person has only answered 7
items the denominator ‘Number of answered items’ will be 7. (See example below).
However, if a person has answered less than 50% of the items in a dimension, all his / her answers in
that dimension should be ignored and not be included in the total mean. (See example below).
When all the participants' data have been entered into the spreadsheet and their means for the
dimensions have been calculated, a total mean for the population has to be calculated for each of the
7 dimensions as a 'mean of the mean'.
5 persons have the following scores on dimension 1: 2.67; 2.33; 2.44; 2.56; 2.67
The total mean for that population will then be (2.67+2.33+2.44+2.56+2.67)/5 = 2.53
DIMENSION 1 – EXAMPLE
QUESTIONNUMBER
r=Thisdatahasbeenreversed
28/8=3.50
7 24/9=2.67
Nomean
calculated
Morethan50%
missing
Totalmeanscoreforthispopulationofthreepersonsanddimension1 350+267/2=
3.08
Inthefollowingsectionpleasedescribehowyouperceivethatthemanagers
andsupervisorsatthisworkplacehandlesafety.Althoughsomequestionsmay
appearverysimilar,pleaseanswereachoneofthem
Strongly Disagree Agree Strongly
disagree agree
PutonlvoneXforeachquestion
Managementencouragesemployeeshere
toworkinaccordancewithsafetyrules
evenwhentheworkscheduleistight
Managementensuresthateveryone
receivesthenecessaryinformationon
safety
Managementlookstheotherwaywhen
someoneiscarelesswithsafety
Managementplacessafetybefore
production
Managementacceptsemployeeshere
takingriskswhentheworkscheduleis
tight
Wewhoworkherehaveconfidenceinthe
management'sabilitytohandlesafety
Managementensuresthatsafetyproblems
discoveredduringsafety
rounds/evaluationsarecorrected
immediatev
Whenariskisdetected,manadement
ignoresitwithoutaction
Managementlackstheabilitytohandle
safetyproperly
When calculating the means for each person you can use the following calculations:
Reliability
Testing the reliability of the results within a scale should be done seperately for the worker and leader
responses. We have used Cronbach's Alpha as an indicator for the reliability of the results. A
Cronbach's Alpha below 0.67 is considered poor; 0.67 - 0.8 is considered acceptable; and above 0.8
is good.
In SPSS you can run the test under: Analyze - Scale - Reliability analysis
RELIABILITY
/VARIABLES=a1 a2 a3 a4 a5 a6 a7 a8 a9
/SCALE('Dim 1 - Management safety priority and ability') ALL
/MODEL=ALPHA
/SUMMARY=MEANS
/SUMMARY=TOTAL.
RELIABILITY