Likert Scale Examples for Surveys

Sorrel Brown
ANR Program Evaluation
Iowa State University Extension
sorrel@iastate.edu
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 wont
Some of the time Agree Probably wont
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