Abstract
Response categories in Likert-scale. Linguistic quantifiers of frequency which are employed in category scales were studied. Our final aim is to achieve consistent lists of quantifiers, which may warrant a proper use of the parametric techniques. This paper consists of two parts: the former has allowed us to set a previous list of consistent quantifiers by using the magnitude estimation method and to make an assessment of the possibilities of use of this procedure; in the latter part the results obtained in the first part are generalized so that a wider research could be made in other Spanish communities.
