Likert Scale Examples for
Surveys
Sorrel Brown
ANR Program Evaluation
Iowa State University Extension
[email protected]
Dec 2010
AGREEMENT
• Agree Strongly • Agree
• Strongly Agree
• Agree Moderately • Disagree
• Agree
• Agree Slightly or
• Undecided
• Disagree Slightly • Agree
• Disagree
• Disagree Moderately • Undecided
• Strongly Disagree
• Disagree Strongly • Disagree
• Agree Very Strongly • Completely Agree • Disagree Strongly
• Agree Strongly • Mostly Agree • Disagree
• Agree • Slightly Agree • Slightly Disagree
• Disagree • Slightly Disagree • Slightly Agree
• Disagree Strongly • Mostly Disagree • Agree
• Disagree Very Strongly • Completely Disagree • Agree Strongly
VALUE
• High
• Moderate
• Low
• None
RELEVANCE
• Excellent
• Somewhat
• Poor
FREQUENCY
• Very Frequently • Always • Always • Always
• Frequently • Very Frequently • Usually • Very Often
• Occasionally • Occasionally • About Half • Sometimes
• Rarely • Rarely the Time • Rarely
• Very Rarely • Very Rarely • Seldom • Never
• Never • Never • Never
• A Great Deal • Often • Almost Always
• Much • Sometimes • To a Considerable Degree
• Somewhat • Seldom • Occasionally
• Little • Never • Seldom
• Never
IMPORTANCE
• Very Important 0 = Not Important At All
• Important • Very Important 1 = Of Little Importance
• Moderately Important • Moderately Important 2 = Of Average
• Slightly Important • Not Important Importance
• Not Important 3 = Very Important
4 = Absolutely Essential
QUALITY
• Very Good • Very Poor
• Good • Below Average • Good
• Acceptable • Average • Fair
• Poor • Above Average • Poor
• Very Poor • Excellent
LIKELIHOOD
• To a Great Extent
• Like Me • Somewhat • True
• Not Like Me • Very Little • False
• Not at All
• Almost Always True
• Definitely
• Usually True
• Very Probably
• Often True
• Probably Not likely
• Occasionally True
• Possibly Somewhat likely
• Rarely True
• Probably Not Very likely
• Usually Not True
• Definitely Not
• Almost Never True
Dichotomous Scales:
Fair Agree True Yes
Unfair Disagree False No
Three-Point Scales:
More than I would like Too Harsh Too Strict
About right About right About right
Less than I would like Too Lenient Too Lenient
Too heavy Too much Extremely
About Right About right Moderately
Too light Too little Not at all
Four-Point Scales:
Most of the time Strongly Agree Definitely won’t
Some of the time Agree Probably won’t
Seldom Disagree Probably will
Never Strongly Disagree Definitely will
Five-Point Scales:
Much better Strongly Agree Very High
Somewhat better Agree Above Average
Stayed the same Undecided Average
Somewhat worse Disagree Below Average
Much worse Strongly Disagree Very Low
Excellent Very good Much higher
Above Average Good Higher
Average Fair About the same
Below Average Poor Lower
Very Poor Very poor Much lower
Almost always Extremely Very satisfied
Often Very Satisfied
Sometimes Moderately Neither
Seldom Slightly Dissatisfied
Never Not at all Very dissatisfied
Very important
Important
Fairly important
Slightly important
Not important
Seven-Point Scales:
very dissatisfied far below very poor
moderately dissatisfied moderately below poor
slightly dissatisfied slightly below fair
neutral met expectations good
slightly satisfied slightly above very good
moderately satisfied moderately above excellent
very satisfied far above exceptional
