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A comment is a line of text in a program that is not read by the computer as a command. Comments do not affect how the program functions; they exist purely for the humans reading and writing the program. Comments help the reader understand what the program is doing. In general, it is good practice to use brief but descriptive comments in your code. Your comments should be clear enough that a reader completely unfamiliar with your work can understand what your program is doing.
In SPSS syntax, placing an asterisk (*) or a forward-slash followed by an asterisk (/*) at the start of a line will turn all text on that line into a comment. Hitting the Enter key will create a new, un-commented line. Typically, comments in SPSS syntax are color-coded with the color gray.
Reopen the Descriptives procedure. All of your previous settings should still be active. Instead of clicking OK, click Paste. This should open a new Syntax Editor file with the descriptives syntax in it. (Alternatively, you can create a new syntax file by clicking File > New > Syntax, and typing or copy/pasting the following syntax into that window.)
It is far easier to "retrace your steps" with syntax if you need to recall the modifications you've made to your dataset. It's also far easier to find and correct mistakes in your analysis if you have the syntax, as opposed to if you had used the menus.
It is much easier to communicate to others what actions you performed in SPSS by showing someone your syntax than it is to describe how you used the menus. The content of the menus and dialog windows has changed over time with each version of SPSS, while the syntax has remained relatively unchanged (though there are a few notable exceptions).
In general, if you are working on a major project (like a thesis, dissertation, or research for publication), or if you are collaborating with others on data analysis, we strongly recommend using SPSS syntax.
A comment on commentsOne of the most important things to remember when writing SPSS syntax isthat all commands must end in a period (.). This includes comments, whichyou can use pretty much anywhere in your syntax file. To start a comment,use either an asterisk (*) or the command comment. If you forget toend your comment with a period, SPSS will consider everything between commentor * and the next period to be part of the comment, and you may be leftwondering why some of your commands did not run.
SPSS can have many datasets open at once. If you have more than onedataset open, you need to be able tospecify which dataset you want your syntax to manipulate. This can be donewith the dataset commands. The dataset commands are a group ofrelated commands that allow you to control the active dataset. This groupof commands includes dataset activate, dataset close, datasetcopy, dataset declare, dataset display and dataset name.Your syntax will run on the active dataset. You can make any open datasetthe active dataset simply by clicking on it. When using syntax, the dataset activate command will make the listed dataset the active dataset.You may need to use the dataset name command before the dataset activatecommand, so that you can name the dataset that you want to make active.The name you give the dataset will not change the name of the dataset that isstored on your hard drive. We will see examples of these commands later inthis presentation.
In the preceding examples, the naming of the variables has not been terriblygood. We do not suggest that you name your variables newvar1, newvar2,etc. Rather, it is good practice to name your variables somethingmeaningful (and easy for you to type). Variable names can be up to 64 bytes long (approximately 64characters long). However, please remember that you cannot use spaces in avariable name, and variable names should not have an underscore at the end, asthese might conflict with variables created by commands or procedures.Variable names should also not end with a period, as the period is the commandterminator in SPSS. (In other words, the period tells SPSS where eachcommand ends.) You can use any combination of upper and lower case lettersin a variable name, but SPSS is case insensitive. In other words, thevariable name might be VarName, but you can type varname, VARname or VARNAME inthe syntax, and it will work fine.
The create command uses functions to make new variables. A fewof these functions, such as the lag function, are available with othercommands. However, create has many functions that are unique to thecommand. Please see our SPSS FAQ:What kinds of new variables can I make with the create command? or the Syntax Reference Guide for a list of thesefunctions.
The numericcommand allows you to specify the format of the new variable. The numericcommand creates an empty variable that you thenpopulate using another command, such as the compute or if command. In the firstexample below, we create a numeric variable called nvn1.Because we did not list a format on the numeric command, this variablehas the default format, which is f8.2. This means that the variable has alength of 8, with 2 spaces after the decimal, 1 space for the decimal, and 5spaces for integer portion of the number. In the second call to thenumeric command, we create two new variables, nvn2 and nvn3.These two variables have different formats. The three computecommands populate our three new variables.
The formats command only works with numeric variables. Thiscommand does not change how many decimal places you see in tables in your output(the only output modified by this command is the output for the listcommand), and itdoes not change the actual values used by SPSS when doing computations.However, it can be very useful when making graphs with the ggraph commandand GPL. Please see MakingGraphs with the ggraph command and GPL for more information and examples.
Creating standardized variables in SPSS is very simple. You can usethe descriptives command with the save subcommand. If you want to name thenew standardized variable instead of using the SPSS default name, you can putthat name in parentheses after the variable you wish to standardize. Youcan also create multiple standardized variables in a single call to descriptives.
When creating variables, the SPSS keyword to will create variables with consecutive numbering. When usingto in syntax to refer to variables that already exist in the data set,SPSS assumes that variables are sequential, or positionally consecutive (all variables between the firstvariable listed and the last variable listed in the command will be included).There are some commands in SPSS that will use the keyword to in both apositionally and a numerically consecutive manner, depending on whether existingvariables are being modified in some way or whether new variables are beingcreated. Some of these commands include autorecode, recode,aggregate and rename variables.
The recode command recodes the values of either numeric or stringvariables. There are several input keywords that you can use with thiscommand, including lo, lowest, hi, highest, thru,missing, sysmis and else. The keyword thruincludes the specified end value. The keywords lowest and highest (and lo and hi) include user-defined missing but notsystem-missing values. The keyword missing specifies bothuser-defined missing and system missing, while the keyword sysmis onlyspecifies system-missing. Output keywords include copy and sysmis. There are other keywords that can be used when recoding stringvariables, but we will not cover those here.
Another way to do the same thing is to use the save outfile commandwith either the keep or the drop subcommand. The differenceis that with the delete variables command, you are not saving a new datafile.
The variable role command was introduced in SPSS version 18, and it isused with some of the commands that were introduced in that and later versionsof SPSS. Some of the roles a variable can take include input (independentvariable), target (dependent variable), both and none. The specified roledoes not matter when you are writing syntax, but it does matter when you areusing the point-and-click interface. This command is mentioned in ourseminar on SPSS syntax because we realize that many people will use thepoint-and-click interface to help them get a template of the syntax for aprocedure, and it can be confusing when some variables appear in some dialogboxes and not others.
You can view the documentation that you havecreated using the sysfile info and display commands. When using thesysfile info command, you mustspecify the file path. Also, the maximum length of a variablelabel is 255 characters and the maximum length of a value label is 120 bytes(approximately 120 characters). The display command allows you todisplay certain information about the dataset and the variables within it.For example, you can display all of the variable names, documents, dictionaryinformation, attributes, labels, scratch variables, vector names and macros.
The document command is very handy and allows you to keep notes withyour data set. You can use the document drop command to remove adocument from your data file. The add document command can be usedto include additional notes toyour document. Unlike the document command, you will need to usequotes around each line of the text when using this command.
The variable labels command allows you to assign labels to yourvariables. Doing so is an important part of developing a codebook.We strongly recommend that all data sets have a codebook, even if the researcheris not planning on sharing the data with others. The codebook reminds youof all of the details of your data set, which is important when you have to comeback to the data at a later time.
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