When a respondent's answers to ten Likert-scale items are added up to form a total score for these questions, this is an example of _____.
A) data indexing.
B) data transformation
C) contingency analysis
D) data indexing

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Adding up the respondent's answers to the ten Likert-scale items is an example of data transformation. Data indexing involves assigning a unique identifier to each observation or case in the dataset, while contingency analysis is a method for examining the relationships between categorical variables. The answer cannot be D as data indexing is already mentioned as an option.

When a Respondent's Answers to Ten Likert-Scale Items Are Added