Questionnaire data in SPSS - Open response question

Enter data from a questionnaire where the participant enters a number rather than select from a list of options. For example, a participant enters their age rather than tick an age group.

[@kathrynwilkin6083]

Thank you so much for this! Just wondering if it is preferable to recode open ended questions such as "how many times have you visited the doctor in the past year" rather than keep them as scale variables? The data needs to be used as a predictor variable in a logistic regression.

[@kimbogle1004]

Are all open-ended questions would be used as a scale measurement in spss?