Date:         Fri, 3 Jan 1997 17:55:20 -0800
Reply-To:     JAMES BALLARD <ballard@NEVADA.EDU>
Sender:       "SPSSX(r) Discussion" <SPSSX-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         JAMES BALLARD <ballard@NEVADA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Monthly Measures
Comments: To: Brian Karl Finch <finch@MAIL.SDSU.EDU>
In-Reply-To:  <2.2.32.19970103233228.00677098@mail.sdsu.edu>
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Brian,
 
What about using a code for each month (1-6) and creating one data file.
You could then use the select command to isolate one month at a time and
also have totals for all six months (I find this very easy to do in
SPSSwin and have used similar codings to save doing the 700 variables
again and again.  It also saves doing the merge.
 
Month  VAR1  VAR2  VAR3 ...  VA700
 
  1      1     2    3          1
  1      2     1    2          1
  2      1     1    1          2
  3 ...
 
Dave
 
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James David Ballard
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Department of Sociology
Phone:  702.895.3322
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