Is there any way to count original values distinct values, when the variable has been created by varstocases?
The variable which is varstocases is multi answer, therefore I got it coded as Var_1 to Var_X, like on that sample screenshot (note that in SPSS they're labeled of course)
I make standard varstocases
VARSTOCASES /make Var_1_product from
Var1_1_1
Var1_1_2
Var1_1_3
Var1_1_4
Var1_1_5
Var1_1_6
and then obviously when I split them by country, or by product category, like
CTABLES
/VLABELS VARIABLES=Var_1_product Country DISPLAY=DEFAULT
/TABLE Var_1_product BY Country [C][COUNT F40.0]
/CATEGORIES VARIABLES=Var_1_product ORDER=A KEY=VALUE EMPTY=INCLUDE
/CATEGORIES VARIABLES=Country ORDER=A KEY=VALUE EMPTY=EXCLUDE
/CRITERIA CILEVEL=95
/TITLES TITLE="Var_1 product by country".
It gets total of, for instance 110, when there are N = 55, because of varstocases. How to get real count, of the original "N", when my variable is split into few columns.
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I'm trying to understand how to visualise the sum of column percentages in some tabulations of multiple variables.
suppose that i have defined the variable $q12 as a multiple response set of categorical values of the variables sq12m1 sq12m2 sq12m3 sq12m4 sq12m5.
i could have cases with values only in sq12m1 or cases with values in all of those.
if i want to see how many times any brand appear in any of those sq12m1 to sq12m5 i am using this:
CTABLES
/VLABELS VARIABLES=$q12 DISPLAY=DEFAULT
/TABLE $q12 [C][COUNT F40.0, COLPCT.COUNT PCT40.1]
/CATEGORIES VARIABLES=$q12 ORDER=A KEY=VALUE EMPTY=INCLUDE TOTAL=YES POSITION=AFTER
MISSING=EXCLUDE.
and it will generate this:
how can i sum the column percentages? using this syntax the total is always 100%, i would like to visualise the sum (which in this case is 215.10%) which represents the average number of mentions...
do you know how to do it?
thanks!!!
Only one thing you need to change in your syntax, in the /TABLE sub-command:COLPCT.RESPONSES.COUNT instead of COLPCT.COUNT:
CTABLES
/VLABELS VARIABLES=$q12 DISPLAY=DEFAULT
/TABLE $q12 [C][COUNT F40.0, COLPCT.RESPONSES.COUNT PCT40.1]
/CATEGORIES VARIABLES=$q12 ORDER=A KEY=VALUE EMPTY=INCLUDE TOTAL=YES POSITION=AFTER
MISSING=EXCLUDE.
When I run this syntax in SPSS:
output modify
/select all except (Tables)
/deleteobject delete=yes.
my custom tables still get deleted. Do you have any idea whether this is a bug or I am doing something wrong?
Many thanks in advance!
TABLES is a generic term for all objects of type table, which includes custom tables output. You can do what you want with OMS using syntax like this.
oms select all /exceptif subtypes='Custom Table'/destination viewer=no.
CTABLES
/VLABELS VARIABLES=educ DISPLAY=DEFAULT
/TABLE educ [C][COUNT F40.0]
/CATEGORIES VARIABLES=educ ORDER=A KEY=VALUE EMPTY=INCLUDE MISSING=EXCLUDE
/CRITERIA CILEVEL=95.
DESCRIPTIVES VARIABLES=bdate educ id jobcat jobtime
/STATISTICS=MEAN STDDEV MIN MAX.
omsend.
I have the following syntax to merge two datasets. I expect that the resulting dataset (test1) contains 5 cases with 4 of them (2 to 5) a value in variable set2.
The result I am getting is dataset test1 with 5 cases but only 1 of them (case with id 5) has a value in variable set2.
Do I need to contact my ICT department, or am I misunderstanding something about merging data in SPSS. I am used to working with SAS, R and SQL, but need to help someone with a data merging within SPSS
INPUT PROGRAM.
LOOP id=1 to 5.
END CASE.
END LOOP.
END FILE.
END INPUT PROGRAM.
COMPUTE set1 = RV.NORMAL(1,1).
EXECUTE.
DATASET NAME test1.
INPUT PROGRAM.
LOOP id=2 to 5.
END CASE.
END LOOP.
END FILE.
END INPUT PROGRAM.
COMPUTE set2 = RV.NORMAL(1,1).
EXECUTE.
DATASET NAME test2.
DATASET ACTIVATE test1.
STAR JOIN
/SELECT t0.set1, t1.set2
/FROM * AS t0
/JOIN 'test2' AS t1
ON t0.id=t1.id
/OUTFILE FILE=*.
results in:
id set1 set2
1,00 1,74
2,00 1,58
3,00 1,01
4,00 ,12
5,00 2,52 ,79
SPSS version 21
When I run the syntax you provide I get the desired results (and not what you indicate):
If it continues to fail (after contacting SPSS support), try using MATCH FILES:
DATASET ACTIVATE test1.
SORT CASES BY ID.
DATASET ACTIVATE test2.
SORT CASES BY ID.
MATCH FILES FILE=test1 /FILE=test2 /BY ID.
DATASET NAME Restult.
In SPSS i have a variabele with a lot of different values (8 figure number; 00000000). Every row is a person. I want to aggregate this data on postal area and count the number of different values in a postal area. Is there a way?
Result within a postal area should be 1 to N : 1 = every person has the same value, N = every person has a different value
Aggregate in two steps. Assuming your dataset name is data1, with variables var1 (the variable of interest) and postalcode, I would do this:
Create a dataset step1, with one row for each combination of values of postalcode and var1. Also possible by using the command casestovars.
dataset declare step1.
dataset activate data1.
aggregate outf=step1 /break=postalcode var1 /n=n(var1).
Create a dataset result with one row for each postalcode, and a variable n for the number of rows from the previous dataset step1.
dataset declare result.
dataset activate step1.
aggregate outf=result /break=postalcode /n=n(var1).
So, in conclusion: first break by both of the variables, then break only by the variable of postal code. This should do the trick!
I've defined a function for running batches of custom tables:
DEFINE !xtables (myvars=!CMDEND)
CTABLES
/VLABELS VARIABLES=!myvars retailer total DISPLAY=LABEL
/TABLE !myvars [C][COLPCT.COUNT PCT40.0, TOTALS[UCOUNT F40.0]] BY retailer [c] + total [c]
/SLABELS POSITION=ROW
/CRITERIA CILEVEL=95
/CATEGORIES VARIABLES=!myvars ORDER=D KEY=COLPCT.COUNT (!myvars) EMPTY=INCLUDE TOTAL=YES LABEL='Base' POSITION=AFTER
/COMPARETEST TYPE=PROP ALPHA=.05 ADJUST=BONFERRONI ORIGIN=COLUMN INCLUDEMRSETS=YES CATEGORIES=ALLVISIBLE MERGE=YES STYLE=SIMPLE SHOWSIG=NO
!ENDDEFINE.
I can then run a series for commands to run these in one batch.
!XTABLES MYVARS=q1.
!XTABLES MYVARS=q2.
!XTABLES MYVARS=q3.
However, if a table has the same row and column, Custom Tables freezes:
!XTABLES MYVARS=retailer.
The culprit appears to be SLABELS. I hadn't encountered this problem before v24.
I tried replicating a CTABLES spec as close as possible to yours and found that VLABELSdoes not like the same variable specified twice.
GET FILE="C:\Program Files\IBM\SPSS\Statistics\23\Samples\English\Employee data.sav".
CTABLES /VLABELS VARIABLES=Gender Gender DISPLAY=LABEL
/TABLE Gender[c][COLPCT.COUNT PCT40.0, TOTALS[UCOUNT F40.0]]
BY Gender[c] /SLABELS POSITION=ROW
/CATEGORIES VARIABLES=Gender ORDER=D KEY=COLPCT.COUNT(Gender) .
Which yields an error message:
VLABELS: Text GENDER. The same keyword, option, or subcommand is used more than once.
The macro has a parmeter named MYVARS, which suggests that more than one variable can be listed, however, if you do that, it will generate an invalid command. Something else to watch out for. I can see the infinite loop in V24. In V23, an error message is produced.