Version 17 has added a CODEBOOK command that gives you an integrated display of variable metadata and summary statistics. It gives you complete control over which metadata and statistics are displayed. It has a dialog box on the Analyze>Reports menu.
With Versions 14 and 15, the DisplayDict.py module does something similar; with version 16, there is a CODEBOOK extension command that does this. That extension command can be used with version 17, but it is superseded by the new built-in CODEBOOK command.
HTH,
Jon Peck
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From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:
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Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 9:11 AM
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Subject: Re: [SPSSX-L] (How) can I create a codebook with value labels in SPSS version 14?
Jon, the DISPLAY DICTIONARY command doesn't do what it used to. It now
displays variable information (variable name and label) separate from
variable values. This DOES give the variable, value and value labels, but
does not give the variable label. This information used to be integrated
in versions prior to version 14. And I cannot tell you how much I miss
that!
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:09:24 -0600, Peck, Jon <
[hidden email]> wrote:
>The DISPLAY DICTIONARY command will show this information. If you want
statistics integrated with this output and don't want to use
FREQUENCIES/DESCRIPTIVES etc, you can use the DisplayDict.py
programmability module from SPSS Developer Central (www.spss.com) in the
Downloads section. That, of course, requires installing the Python plug-
in for version 14.
>
>You can see more information on this by clicking the item in the
Downloads list.
>
>HTH,
>Jon Peck
>
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