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Computing percentage between 2 variables

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kim

Computing percentage between 2 variables

Hi everyone;
I am hoping that someone can help me. How do I compute the percentage between 2 different variables and make this a new variable? I have the following 2 variables:

r.request
r.pursued

I need to know what percentage of requests were actually pursued. I would want to name this new variable 'percent.pursued'

Thanks in advance! This doctoral student is frustrated!

Bruce Weaver

Re: Computing percentage between 2 variables

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Rather than give you a fish, I'll encourage you to try fishing for yourself. Look up the COMPUTE command in the fine manual, and study some of the examples you'll find there. A Google search in <SPSS COMPUTE> might also yield something useful.

HTH.

kim wrote

Hi everyone;
I am hoping that someone can help me. How do I compute the percentage between 2 different variables and make this a new variable? I have the following 2 variables:

r.request
r.pursued

I need to know what percentage of requests were actually pursued. I would want to name this new variable 'percent.pursued'

Thanks in advance! This doctoral student is frustrated!

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kim

Re: Computing percentage between 2 variables

Bruce Weaver wrote

Rather than give you a fish, I'll encourage you to try fishing for yourself. Look up the COMPUTE command in the fine manual, and study some of the examples you'll find there. A Google search in <SPSS COMPUTE> might also yield something useful.

Thanks for your response. With my fishing - I decided on the following syntax - however, perhaps, I have the decimal in the wrong place on the 100? Some of my answers are 300%??

COMPUTE percent.pursued=r.request / r.pursued * 100.
EXECUTE.

HTH.

kim wrote

Hi everyone;
I am hoping that someone can help me. How do I compute the percentage between 2 different variables and make this a new variable? I have the following 2 variables:

r.request
r.pursued

I need to know what percentage of requests were actually pursued. I would want to name this new variable 'percent.pursued'

Thanks in advance! This doctoral student is frustrated!

kim

Re: Computing percentage between 2 variables

Never mind! Stupid mistake. I got it. Thanks.