Reordering output

[Jim Posey]

I would like to reorder output files via syntax. The output default is alphabetical as follows:

Agree
Disagree
Strongly Agree
Strongly Disagree

I would like the output to come out in logical order as follows:

Strongly Agree
Agree
Disagree
Strongly Disagree

Any assistance is greatly appreciated.

Jim


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[Maguin, Eugene]

Jim,

I don't understand what you want to do--not at all. Why don't you start with
basics. You say

>>I would like to reorder output files via syntax. The output default is
alphabetical as follows:

Agree
Disagree
Strongly Agree
Strongly Disagree

I would like the output to come out in logical order as follows:

Strongly Agree
Agree
Disagree
Strongly Disagree

Just to start, what command or series of commands did you run to get the
default output?

Gene Maguin

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[Bruce Weaver]

And in addition to Gene's question, is the variable string, or numeric with value labels?  I ask, because if it is string, that would cause things to appear in alphabetic order when you ask for a frequency distribution, for example.  

Gene Maguin wrote

Jim,

I don't understand what you want to do--not at all. Why don't you start with
basics. You say

>>I would like to reorder output files via syntax. The output default is
alphabetical as follows:

Agree
Disagree
Strongly Agree
Strongly Disagree

I would like the output to come out in logical order as follows:

Strongly Agree
Agree
Disagree
Strongly Disagree

Just to start, what command or series of commands did you run to get the
default output?

Gene Maguin

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[John F Hall]

You could try altering your settings to use the code values rather than the labels. I presume you are using 1,2,3,4?  If not, you need to recode the alpha values to numeric first.  If your vars are called a1, a2,...a<n>

 

recode a1 to a<n>

    ('Agree' = 3)('Strongly Agree' = 4)

    ('Disagree' = 2')(Strongly Disagree' = 1)

    (convert) into v1 to v<n> .

 

...or something like that.

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Subject: Reordering output

I would like to reorder output files via syntax. The output default is alphabetical as follows:

Agree
Disagree
Strongly Agree
Strongly Disagree

I would like the output to come out in logical order as follows:

Strongly Agree
Agree
Disagree
Strongly Disagree

Any assistance is greatly appreciated.

Jim


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