Date:         Mon, 14 Mar 2005 12:05:19 -0500
Reply-To:     "Chelminski, Iwona" <IChelminski@lifespan.org>
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From:         "Chelminski, Iwona" <IChelminski@lifespan.org>
Subject:      family member
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Hi all,

I've been trying to write a syntax for my analysis but I'm not a very
advanced SPSS user and I'm having huge problems. I have a file of 2100
subjects and each subject has a different number of family members (from 0
to 15, e.g., for ID1 there are 4 cases/family members, father mother two
brothers ), so the total in my file is over 10000 cases. I need to create an
additional variable for each subject representing whether "any family
member" (of that subject) has a condition X. If the condition X is in the
family the subject will be labeled as "positive"
I'm sure this will involve some kind of looping, lagging and who knows what
else. At any rate I just don't know the spss language and don't know these
"tricks." I have already spent a lot of time trying to learn the basics and
figured that by the time I'm proficient at it my boss will fire me :-)
Please help,

Thanks in advance,

Iwona