Summary Creating dummy variables for several categorical variables by basic syntax is usually not hard. However, applying proper variable labels to the newly created dummy variables requires quite a bit of effort. The tool presented in this tutorial will take care of this -and some other issues- more easily. SPSS Dummy Variables Tool SPSS Create Dummy Variables Tool Instructions […]
Dummy coding a variable means representing each of its values by a separate dichotomous variable. These so-called dummy variables contain only ones and zeroes (and sometimes missing values). The figure below shows how the variable “pet” from favorite_pets.sav has been dummy coded as pet_d1 through pet_d4. Dummy Variables in SPSS Note that, for example, pet_d2 represents the value 2 on […]
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