Select if not permanent?

[J McClure]

Hi,
I thought that if I used a select if statement WITHOUT  "temporary"
preceding it that the selection would be permanent.
I used the following syntax Select if (SIWkRating LE 5) AND (MD_SI_C LE
5) and did a crosstabs which showed I should have an n of 346. When I
ran a frequency for MD_SI_C the total was indeed 346. I closed SPSS and
have now reopened it and reran the frequency for MD_SI_C and the total n
is back to 482, the entire dataset.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
Jan

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[Marks, Jim]

Did you save the dataset before closing SPSS? If not, you got the old
version of the file when you re-opened

Jim Marks
Director, Market Research
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J McClure
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Subject: Select if not permanent?

Hi,
I thought that if I used a select if statement WITHOUT  "temporary"
preceding it that the selection would be permanent.
I used the following syntax Select if (SIWkRating LE 5) AND (MD_SI_C LE
5) and did a crosstabs which showed I should have an n of 346. When I
ran a frequency for MD_SI_C the total was indeed 346. I closed SPSS and
have now reopened it and reran the frequency for MD_SI_C and the total n
is back to 482, the entire dataset.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
Jan

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[John F Hall]

You probably closed the data editor without saving it, so the working file is lost and it remains in its original state.

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Subject: Select if not permanent?

Hi,
I thought that if I used a select if statement WITHOUT  "temporary"
preceding it that the selection would be permanent.
I used the following syntax Select if (SIWkRating LE 5) AND (MD_SI_C LE
5) and did a crosstabs which showed I should have an n of 346. When I
ran a frequency for MD_SI_C the total was indeed 346. I closed SPSS and
have now reopened it and reran the frequency for MD_SI_C and the total n
is back to 482, the entire dataset.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
Jan

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[John F Hall]

Jan

 

Make sure you save your transformed file with a new name, otherwise you will lose your original data.  To avoid tears I always advise people to keep at least two copies of their original data on a removable medium or a remote server and also to save all the syntax used to create that and subsequent files.

 

Check out my tutorial http://surveyresearch.weebly.com/uploads/2/9/9/8/2998485/2.3.1.1__data_transformations.doc

 

John 

 

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----- Original Message -----

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Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 5:47 AM

Subject: Select if not permanent?

Hi,
I thought that if I used a select if statement WITHOUT  "temporary"
preceding it that the selection would be permanent.
I used the following syntax Select if (SIWkRating LE 5) AND (MD_SI_C LE
5) and did a crosstabs which showed I should have an n of 346. When I
ran a frequency for MD_SI_C the total was indeed 346. I closed SPSS and
have now reopened it and reran the frequency for MD_SI_C and the total n
is back to 482, the entire dataset.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
Jan

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