Hi John,
string schoolyear (a9).
compute schoolyear =
concat(string(year1,f4),'-',string(year2,f4)).
I didn't test this, but I think the code is correct.
Cheers!!
Albert-Jan
--- John Amora <
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> Two variables in my SPSS file are YEAR1 and YEAR2.
> YEAR1 refers to start of school year, while YEAR2
> refers to end of school year. Suppose I have 5
> cases,
> the two columns in my datafile would look like as
> follows:
>
> YEAR1 YEAR2
> 2003 2004
> 2003 2004
> 2004 2005
> 2005 2006
> 2006 2007
>
> I want to create a variable called SCHOOLYEAR such
> that the values are 2003-2004, 2004-2005;
> 2005-2006;2006-2007. In this case my datafile would
> look like:
>
> YEAR1 YEAR2 SCHOLLYEAR
> 2003 2004 2003-2004
> 2003 2004 2003-2004
> 2004 2005 2004-2005
> 2005 2006 2005-2006
> 2006 2007 2006-2007
>
> How to do this using syntax?
>
> Thank you.
> John
>
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