Assess 2006 Old Dog, Old Tricks
Step 2: Grouping the values
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- Recode
- Step 3: Adding in Value Labels
Step 2: Grouping the valuesAs in the previous exercise the new variable already exists in the file distributed by the Open University. SPSS will not allow it to be overwritten, so yet again I had to overcome this by deleting the variable from the file and recreating it from scratch. Transform RecodeInto Different Variables 
Highlight age and click on right arrow to transfer it to the Input Variable box which now becomes the Numeric Variable Output Variable box: 
Type agegp3 in Output Variable Name box, and age 3 groups in the label box then change: 
Click Old and New Values 
then tick Range Lowest thru and enter 29 in the box and 1 in the Value box of the New Value panel 
and click Add 
Click on Range and enter values 30 [through] 44: enter 2 in the Value box of the New Value panel 
Click on Add 
Finally tick Range through highest, enter 45: then enter 3 in the Value box of the New Value panel 
and click on Add 
and Continue Although this is only an exercise, the use of Lowest thru and thru Highest can be dangerous unless you are certain there are no non-missing values outside the valid range. A safer way would have been to use: 18 thru 29 --> 1 30 thru 44 --> 2, 45 thru 82 --> 3 and ELSE -- > SYSMIS. Step 3: Adding in Value Labels[CTRL]+End or scroll down to the new variable agegp3 (which will be appended at the end of the file) and click on the Values cell: 
..then on the gray patch to bring up a new window, the Value Labels dialog panel: 
Enter 1 in the Value box and 18-29 in the Value Label box 
then Add 
Now do the same for values 2 = “30-44” and 3 = “45+” then Add 
and click OK. The cell in the Values column in the Data Editor will now have changed: 
[NB: I have not found a paste facility for this: is there one??] Again standard procedure would be to check the frequencies for the new variable: Pallant does not do it for this example. In general, it is better to check on initial frequencies for variables to be recoded, as there is always a risk of outliers and missing values being erroneously included in the recodes. Anyway: Analyse… Frequencies … etc., etc… 
[NB: If you do this with drop-down menus, previous options and statistics are retained (because of the automatic EXECUTE and you will finish up with more output than you wanted! ie:] 
which is clearly nonsense! As before syntax is quicker (from PASTE):
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