Chapter 8
The Transform and Data Menus
IN THIS CHAPTER
Sorting your cases in different ways
Using some data (and not other data)
Combining counting and case identifying
Recoding variable content to new values
Grouping data in bins
After you get your raw data into SPSS, you may find that it contains errors or isn’t organized how you’d like. A way to alleviate these problems is to make modifications to your data by configuring the values into a form that’s easier to work with and read. This chapter contains some methods you can use to modify your data without losing any information.
A related problem occurs when you want to analyze only some of your data or perform the same analysis more than once. For example, you may want to select the good, complete data and avoid the incomplete, messy data. Or you may want to do a separate analysis for new customers and established customers.
Sorting Cases
You can change the order of your cases (rows) so they appear in just about any order you ...
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