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Recoding N Computing Values

This document discusses how to recode values and compute new variables in SPSS. It provides examples of recoding nominal variables into groups, scoring variables on a high/medium/low scale, and reversing the scoring of items. It also demonstrates how to compute a new variable by adding scores from multiple existing variables, and how to save recoding and computing procedures as syntax files.

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Recoding N Computing Values

This document discusses how to recode values and compute new variables in SPSS. It provides examples of recoding nominal variables into groups, scoring variables on a high/medium/low scale, and reversing the scoring of items. It also demonstrates how to compute a new variable by adding scores from multiple existing variables, and how to save recoding and computing procedures as syntax files.

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Recoding Values and Computing new variables (Dr See Kin Hai)

1. To keep the original data intact and create a brand new variable (under a new column). 2. To put together several categories of nominal variable (not interval or ratio measures) into 2 or more groups. 3. To score them into H, M, L. 4. To recode items to be scored in a reverse way. Example: Table below shows the music and mathematics scores of 10 children with their gender and age in years. You are to correlate the music and mathematics scores for the younger (age less than 10) and older children (age 10 and above).

Enter the data as shown on the right

Range: Lowest through 9 and Value as 1 then Add New column variable created

How to save the recode procedure as a syntax file

How to compute new variables 1. You can add/ subtract scores on several variables to get a new variable.

Example: For the following statements the scores are : agree, 2= Agree, 3= Disagree, 4= Strongly disagree. A I generally enjoy life B Some days things just seem to get me down (negative item) C Life often seems pretty dull (negative item) D The future looks hopeful

1=Strongly

Now reverse the scoring for Items A and D using the Recode procedure as: 1=Strongly disagree, 2= Disagree, 3= Agree and 4= Strongly agree.

3 students answer the 4 statements with the scoring reversed for items a and d. How to add the scores for the 4 items is shown below. How to compute the new variable

How to save the compute procedure as a syntax file


To save this procedure as a syntax file, click on Paste and syntax command appears in the Syntax window.

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