In this particular instance, you could just apply the Month format, as in:
formats monthvar (month9).
The only drawback is that month names are displayed in all upper case.
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From: SPSSX(r) Discussion on behalf of Spousta Jan
Sent: Thu 11/23/2006 3:04 AM
To:
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Subject: Re: Find and Replace
Hi Hans,
For "hard" replacement, one uses RECODE (Menu Transform->Recode->Into
different variables). But in most cases it is better to leave the data
untouched and use Value labels. In the data editor, choose the Variable
View, find the variable and click in the column values. And then fill in
pairs "value - label" (e.g. Value 1, label January) and click Add after
each pair. Then in the output, if you wish, ones will be replaced with
"January" etc.
It is good to read the section about value labels in a manual (how to
turn them off, how to change them etc.). Or ask here for further
details.
HTH
Jan
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From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:
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SPSS Chen
Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2006 3:46 AM
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Subject: Find and Replace
Dear SPSS Lister:
I have a variable in a dataset which have a column named Month as follow
RecordNumber Month
1 1
2 2
3 5
4 12
Could you tell me how I use SPSS to find and replace the 1 to January, 2
to February, 3 to March...... 12 to December. Thanks for your help!
Hans Chen
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