Spss 26 Code

OUTPUT EXPORT
  /CONTENTS EXPORT=VISIBLE
  /PDF FILE='C:\report\output.pdf'.

SPSS has a macro language (not Python). For complex loops, use DEFINE / !ENDDEFINE.

Before analysis, you often need to clean or modify variables.

Creating a New Variable (Compute)

* Calculate a total score from two columns.
COMPUTE Total_Score = Var1 + Var2.
EXECUTE.

(Note: EXECUTE is required to force the computation to happen immediately.)

Recoding Variables Best Practice: Always recode INTO a different variable to preserve your original data.

* Recode Age into Age_Group (1=Young, 2=Old).
RECODE Age (1 THRU 30=1) (31 THRU 100=2) INTO Age_Group.
VARIABLE LABELS Age_Group "Age Category".
VALUE LABELS Age_Group 1 'Young' 2 'Old'.
EXECUTE.

Filtering Data

* Select only participants where Gender is 1.
USE ALL.
COMPUTE filter_$ = (Gender = 1).
FILTER BY filter_$.
EXECUTE.

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