Question

Why there is an issue with this linkert-scale and how I can fix it?

In the last month, on how many days did you carry a weapon to school?

Response choices: 0 days, 1 day, 2 or 3 days, 4 or 5 days

This is the item and question. Based on Linker-scale guidelines what is the issue with the item? No extra info available.

Answer 1

The above likert scale doesn't measure all the cases when the respondent carried the weapon for more than 5 days to school. Also, a likert scale measures the attitudes from one extreme attitude to other and typically has a neutral point. In this case, numerical variable "days" is used. We can fix the likert scale in the following manner:

In the last month, on how many days did you carry a weapon to school?

Response Choices: Never -- Rarely -- Occasionally -- Frequently -- Very Frequently