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I recently opened a very  large data set titled “1998 California Work and Health Survey” compiled by the Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California, San Francisco. There are 1,771 observations and 345 variables. (more…)

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Here’s a little SPSS tip.

When you create new variables, whether it’s through the Recode, Compute, or some other command, you need to check that it worked the way you think it did.

(As an aside, I hope this goes without saying, but never, never, never, never use Recode into Same Variable.  Always Recode into Different Variable so you don’t overwrite your data and then discover you made a mistake.  Or worse, not discover.  It happens).

And the easiest way to do that is to simply look at the data.  (more…)

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