Date:         Tue, 25 Feb 1997 18:10:11 GMT
Reply-To:     Mary Tully D7 IP No 80 <mtully@FS1.PA.MAN.AC.UK>
Sender:       "SPSSX(r) Discussion" <SPSSX-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         Mary Tully D7 IP No 80 <mtully@FS1.PA.MAN.AC.UK>
Organization: University of Manchester, Pharmacy
Subject:      value labels

This is probably a simple question, if you have the syntax manual for
SPSS 6.1, but I don't!
 
I have a database given to me by someone else.  It has 20
categorical variables, with 14 categories for each, all the same.
None are labelled.  I want to label all 20 variables the same:
 
 VALUE LABELS problem20
  1 "product licence"
  2 "side effect"
  3 "drug interaction"
  4 "duplication"
  5 "dose, freq. or timing"
  6 "compliance"
  7 "drug-disease interaction"
  8 "investigation"
  9 "drug choice"
  10 "length of treatment"
  11 "need for drug to be taken"
  12 "expired"
  13 "quantities inequiv./inappropriate"
  14 "other"
 .
 
Now, I cant use problem1 TO problem20, because there are other
variables in between each of them, which naturally I dont want
labelled like this.  Is there a more elegant solution that copying
the above twenty times with a different variable name each time.
Loops are beyond me at the moment, but I'm willing to learn!!
 
Mary Tully
 
 
 
Mary Tully
Research Fellow
Department of Pharmacy
University of Manchester
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MANCHESTER M13 9PL
UK
 
Telephone 0161 275 2415/2342
Fax 0161 275 2396
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I have successfully found 10,000 ways that will not work.' TA Edison