Exporting variables and values to a new dataset pertaining to a country from a dataset containing variables and values pertaining to many countries.

[Faiz Rasool]

Hi all,

 

I’m working with PEW global spring 2010 dataset. 21 countries have been surveyed and the survey data has been entered in one data document. I’d like to create a file which contains all the information about only one country.

 

I’ve looked at select cases, filter variables, and split file. I’m sure, though, that I’m doing something wrong or I’m missing something. As I cannot achieve what I want to.

 

The information of the country I want to export to a new data document is coded as 16. There is one variable labeled country, and it has been coded 1 to 21, each code representing a country. Unfortunately, I cannot use syntax to achieve this (I use a screen reader to use SPSS and syntax editor cannot be used with it). So I hope there is a way of doing this from a GUI.

 

Thanks for the help,

Regards,

Faiz.