Dear Johnny,

thanks for your help again. I had used the recoding procedure before, but then it did not allow me to put two different conditions in the new recoded variable. I now decided to separate the two groups, pregnant and non pregnant according to their references. Therefore I did two records, one for each Hb reference and runned two different crosstabs, accordingly. To get what I wanted in one table, I had to make another table manually. See examples 1., 2. and Mannually below. Should I do it differently? I am still open for alternatives. Thanks, Alice.

1.

Recoded weather pregnant Total Non pregnant Pregnant Classified using non pregnancy references Non Anemic 260 10 270 Mild anemia 70 20 90 Moderate anemia 20 10 30 Severe anemia 10 0 10 Total 360 40 400

2.

Recoded whether pregnant Total Non pregnant Pregnant Classified using pregnancy references Non Anemic 300 20 320 Mild anemia 30 10 40 Moderate anemia 20 10 30 Severe anemia 10 0 10 Total 360 40 400

Manually

Recoded whether pregnant Total Non pregnant Pregnant Classified using both non- and pregnancy references Non Anemic 260 20 280 Mild anemia 70 10 80 Moderate anemia 20 10 30 Severe anemia 10 0 10 Total 354 40 400

________________________________ From: Johnny Amora <bayesian2001@yahoo.com> To: alice temu <temualice@yahoo.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 6, 2009 12:03:10 AM Subject: Re: Crosstabs

You can just recode first the continuous variable. Instead of using syntax to recode, use the point-click. To recode, click

Transform then Record into Different Variables

Then follow through the dialog box.

After recoding, run the chisquare.

Just tell me if there are still problems.

Johnny

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From: alice temu <temualice@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Crosstabs To: SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Date: Tuesday, 6 January, 2009, 12:49 PM

Dear Jonny,

thanks for your help. My problem is giving (computing) the variable Y (from continuous values), a value (based on pregnant and non pregnant references)

Pregnant: < 11, >= 11

Non pregnant: < 12, >=12

I tried to compute and run frequencies and crosstabs, see below. The values got mixed up. How can I better attempt this test.

Thanks again, Alice.

IF (((RecPregNow = 0 & hemogl >= 12) | (RecPregNow >= 1 & hemogl >= 11))) testheamanpre = 1 . VARIABLE LABELS testheamanpre 'test heamoglobin anemia pregnancy' . EXECUTE . IF (((RecPregNow = 0 & hemogl < 12) | (RecPregNow >= 1 & hemogl < 11))) testheamanpre = 2 . EXECUTE .

FREQUENCIES

VARIABLES=testheamanpre /STATISTICS=SUM /BARCHART FREQ /ORDER= ANALYSIS .

CROSSTABS /TABLES=testheamanpre BY hamlet /FORMAT= AVALUE TABLES

/STATISTIC=CHISQ CORR /CELLS= COUNT ROW COLUMN TOTAL /COUNT ROUND CELL .

________________________________ From: Johnny Amora <bayesian2001@yahoo.com> To: SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Sent: Monday, January 5, 2009 9:30:02 PM Subject: Re: Crosstabs

Hi Alice,

To do crosstabs you should have the variables in your data set. The variables should be in the columns. In your case, you should have, say, X variable with values pregnant and non pregnant; and Y variable with values anemic and non-anemic. Suppose you have 5 respondents, your data set should have three columns as follows:

Respondent X Y A pregnant anemic B nonpregnant nonanemic C nonpregnant anemic D pregnant anemic E pregnant nonanemic

Then run the following syntax to produce the crosstabs and chisquare statistics:

CROSSTABS /TABLES= X BY Y /FORMAT= AVALUE TABLES /STATISTIC=CHISQ /CELLS= COUNT /COUNT ROUND CELL .

Hope this helps, Johnny

--- On Tue, 1/6/09, alice temu <temualice@yahoo.com> wrote: From: alice temu <temualice@yahoo.com> Subject: Crosstabs To: SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Date: Tuesday, 6 January, 2009, 10:06 AM

Dear all,

Happy New Year.

I have a question on Crosstabs in SPSS I would like to run one variable (Hb) with two different cutoff points (reference limits)

I would like to see (pregnant and anemic), (pregnant but not anemic),(not pregnantbut anemic), and (not pregnant and not anemic) with their corresponding reference limits in one table (see below). Is this applicable in SPSS to have frequencies, correlation etc. in such categorical variables? Any alternatives?

Please help. Thanks, Alice.

Anemic Non anemic Total Pregnant Non pregnant Total

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