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Analysing NOSACQ-50 data

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Here you can find out how to score the items in NOSACQ-50.

How to score the items in NOSACQ-50

Option 1

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

Dimension1-Management A1.A2.A4,A6.A7 A3.A5.A8.A9

safetypriorityandability(9
items):

Dimension2-Management A10.A11.A12. A13.A15

safetyempowerment(7 A14.A16
items):

Dimension3-Management A17.A19.A20.A22 A18.A21

safetyjustice(6items):

Dimension4-Workers'safety A23,A24,A27 A25,A26,A28

commitment(6items):

Dimension5-Workers'safety A33 A29.A30,A31,

priorityandrisknon- A32,A34,A35
acceptance(7items):

Dimension6-Peersafety A36.A37.A38, A41

communicationlearning,and A39.A40,A42.A43
trustinsafetyability(8items):

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:

(A1+A2+(5-A3)+A4+(5-A5)+A6+A7+(5-A8)+(5-A9)) / Number of answered items

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'.

Example – how to calculate the 'mean of the mean' for dimension 1:

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

PERSON A1 AZ A3r A4 A5r A6 A7 A8r A9r MEAN

NUMBER (perperson)

28/8=3.50

7 24/9=2.67

Nomean
calculated

Morethan50%
missing

Totalmeanscoreforthispopulationofthreepersonsanddimension1 350+267/2=
3.08

Proceed with same procedure for each of the remaining dimensions.

When calculating the means for each person you can use the following calculations:

Dimension 1: (A1+A2+(5-A3)+A4+(5-A5)+A6+A7+(5-A8)+(5-A9)) / Number of answered items

Dimension 2: (A10+A11+A12+(5-A13)+A14+(5-A15)+A16) / Number of answered items

Dimension 3: (A17+(5-A18)+A19+A20+(5-A21)+A22) / Number of answered items

Dimension 4: (A23+A24+(5-A25)+(5-A26)+A27+(5-A28)) / Number of answered items

Dimension 5: ((5-A29)+ (5-A30)+ (5-A31)+ (5-A32)+A33+(5-A34)+ (5-A35)) / Number of answered

items

Dimension 6: (A36+A37+A38+A39+A40+(5-A41)+A42+A43) / Number of answered items

Dimension 7: (A44+(5-A45)+A46+(5-A47)+A48+(5-A49)+A50) / Number of answered items

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

/VARIABLES=a10 a11 a12 a13 a14 a15 a16

/SCALE('Dim2 - Management safety empowerment') ALL
/MODEL=ALPHA
/SUMMARY=MEANS
/SUMMARY=TOTAL.

Etc. etc. for each dimension.

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