Date:         Mon, 24 Jan 2011 23:53:26 -0600
Reply-To:     "Marks, Jim" <Jim.Marks@lodgenet.com>
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From:         "Marks, Jim" <Jim.Marks@lodgenet.com>
Subject:      Re: Select if not permanent?
Comments: To: J McClure <mc006@pacbell.net>
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Did you save the dataset before closing SPSS? If not, you got the old
version of the file when you re-opened

Jim Marks
Director, Market Research
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From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of
J McClure
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 10:48 PM
To: SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Select if not permanent?

Hi,
I thought that if I used a select if statement WITHOUT  "temporary"
preceding it that the selection would be permanent.
I used the following syntax Select if (SIWkRating LE 5) AND (MD_SI_C LE
5) and did a crosstabs which showed I should have an n of 346. When I
ran a frequency for MD_SI_C the total was indeed 346. I closed SPSS and
have now reopened it and reran the frequency for MD_SI_C and the total n
is back to 482, the entire dataset.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
Jan

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