Consider the following item:
3.1 Resources and expertise availability 4 – High availability of resources and expertise 3 – Moderate availability of resources and expertise 2 – Low availability of resources and expertise 1 - No availability of resources and expertise
Respondents have to select one option. Numeric values have been assigned to each option. Can I than use this score data and perform arithmetic operations on it i.e. finding mean, calculating weighted scores etc.
Thank you for your help.