Posted by
Marks, Jim on
Jan 25, 2011; 5:53am
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Select-if-not-permanent-tp3355790p3355817.html
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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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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