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 […]
For merging SPSS data files with similar cases but different variables, use MATCH FILES. Make sure your case identifier -if any- doesn’t contain duplicate values and the files are sorted ascendingly on it. The result contains all cases from both files (like a full outer join in SQL).Second, MATCH FILES also performs a table lookup as illustrated below. SPSS […]
Summary ADD FILES is an SPSS command that’s mainly used for merging data sources holding similar variables but different cases. (For the same cases but different variables, see MATCH FILES.) A second use is for reordering and/or dropping variables in a single dataset. SPSS Add Files Matches Data Sources on Variable Names SPSS Add Files – Basic Usage The ADD FILES command […]
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 […]
