Re: Select if not permanent?

Posted by John F Hall on Jan 25, 2011; 8:54am
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Select-if-not-permanent-tp3355790p3355935.html

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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