SPSS – Five Handy System Settings

Summary Learning just a handful of SPSS system settings allows you to get better results faster. This tutorial quickly walks you through the five most useful ones. We recommend you follow along with the examples by downloading and opening employees.sav. SPSS SET TNUMBERS SPSS TNUMBERS determine how data values are displayed. In SPSS, tnumbers (short for […]

SPSS VARSTOCASES With Labels Tool

Running VARSTOCASES is often necessary for generating nice charts in SPSS. One of the many examples is a stacked bar chart for comparing multiple variables. Sadly, we lose our variable labels when running VARSTOCASES and we really do need those. The solution is a simple tool that generates our VARSTOCASES for us and applies the variable labels of the input variables as value […]

SPSS VARSTOCASES – What and Why?

SPSS VARSTOCASES is short for “variables to cases”. It restructures data by stacking variables on top of each other as illustrated by the figure above. You can try this simple example for yourself by downloading and opening sav_data018 and running the syntax below on it. SPSS VARSTOCASES Example 1 *Very basic VARSTOCASES example. varstocases /make v from […]