Date:         Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:30:46 +0100
Reply-To:     Michiel van Lieshout <m_vanlieshout@chello.nl>
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From:         Michiel van Lieshout <m_vanlieshout@chello.nl>
Subject:      Sort Cases (by two variables)
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Hello everyone.

I am a dutch student at the open university. My teacher could not help me with the next problem .

In World95.sav I tried to sort simultaneously fertility (Ascending) and lit_fema (Descending).
In Syntax Editor:
SORT CASES BY
  fertility (A) lit_fema (D) .

Fertility is perfectly ascending, but in lit_fema I get orders like the following:
For cases 29 to 33 fertility is 1.9 .
Then I expect lit_fema (%females who read) to be descending. But I get the following:
case29 -> 100
case30 ->   84
case31 -> 100
case32 ->   93
case33 ->   98

Can anybody tell me what goes wrong?

Michiel van Lieshout