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Data editing Visual BinningThrough Visual Binning you can in an easy and visual way create classes for a scale variable. The labels for the classes are automatically added by SPSS. In our example data file the variable v02 contains the age of the respondent in years. Coding
Using Visual Binning
Click Continue. Now you come to the actual Visual Binning dialog box. Complete it as shown below, following steps 1, 2 and 3.
The steps to take are:
The resultBelow you see the new variable with its properties in the variable view.
Note: You could get the same result using RECODE, but that takes a lot more effort, and you can't see what the distribution of the original variable looks like during the definition of the classes. |
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30-10-2012
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