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HEllo,
when inserting a categorical variable as a letter the program does not read the columns (only C1 appears when I name them).
You suggested to use DUMMY variable, then for each category I should insert a 0-1 dummy, like the following:

1 1 0 1 1 34 d
-9.999e+029 0 1 1 1 35 d
3 1 2 1 1 36 c
4 ...

thanks!
I added the factors, constrained, and the model works.
best regards
Marco Seeber

Thank you very much,
the variables in the test file are the following:
- dependent variables: question 1, question 2, question 3
- level 2 identifier: "country"
- cons
- explanatory variables: age, wealth

I opened the file, named the variables, then tried a single level (I did not specify the level ...

Hello,

I have ordinal responses (i), of respondents (ii) within universities (iii).
Since I have missing completely at random responses, I don't need imputation.

I use MLwiN to create the "ASCII text file output"
I open the Realcom program for factor structural model, open the file and name the ...