Category: Editing Data

Editing Data

  • Computing New Variables
  • Recoding Variables
  • String Variables
  • Merging Data Files
  • Restructuring Data
  • Date Variables
  • Time and Datetime Variables

SPSS Missing Values Functions

Most real world data contain some (or many) missing values. It’s always a good idea to inspect the amount of missingness for avoiding unpleasant surprises later on. In order to do so, SPSS has some missing values functions that are mostly used with COMPUTE, IF AND DO IF. This tutorial demonstrates how to use them effectively. We’ll do so […]

SPSS COMPUTE – Simple Tutorial

SPSS COMPUTE command sets the data values for (possibly new) numeric variables and string variables. These values are usually a function (such as MEAN, SUM or something more advanced) of other variables. This tutorial walks you through doing just that. We’ll use hospital.sav,a screenshot of which is shown below. Before proceeding, we’ll first set 6 as a user missing value for the last 5 […]