Sequence analysis process

 • Make a record of the raw data 

• Data ready for counting events and transitions 

• Count events using ‘Find and Replace’ in Word. (See picture below)

• Pick out the most frequent 15-ish, and put the others into groups, eg ‘Low frequency events’. Recode the data accordingly into a new file.

• Count all transitions between these new event categories using ‘Find and Replace’ in Word.

• Make the Transitional Frequency Table, including 'Standard Normal Residuals'. (See pictures at the end for details of the steps, using SPSS.)

• Chi-squared table

• Link the transitions (event pairs) together

• Software for drawing transition diagrams

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 • The end product (a drink-driving study)

** Making the transition table in SPSS: a step-by-step guide **