Re: calculating average annual percentage change in SPSS - reply help please!!

Posted by Bruce Weaver on
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Re-calculating-average-annual-percentage-change-in-SPSS-reply-help-please-tp4698382p4698764.html

Has Thara tried posting to the list via Nabble?  

   http://spssx-discussion.1045642.n5.nabble.com/

HTH.


Art Kendall wrote
It must be a real handicap in doing your work is you
      cannot get on listserv lists, forums, etc.
     
      The listserv SPSSX-L uses  is very very old.  I guess nobody at a
      university or agency has volunteered to bring the archives to
      his/her system.
      UGA has not updated its listserve or archives in a long time. They
      are running version 1.8d. The current version is at least 15.0. 
      [this is surprising since lists are very helpful in educational
      settings. UGA's page says it has 2000 lists!]
     
     
    [hidden email]  is
    where to send a message to the list manager.
   
     
      I am including the list to see if others can help you.
     
      I seem to recall that the problem of non-standard email has come
      up before. Does anyone on the list know
      1 --  how someone who uses Lotus Notes can send _ordinary email_ 
      without privileges?
      2 --  what Thara should ask the IT department to set the overall
      parameters to? or
      3 --  what Thara should ask the IT
      department to set the her/his parameters to?
   
     
     
      Art Kendall
      Social Research Consultants
     
     
   
    On 8/11/2011 10:48 PM, Thara Vardhan wrote:
    Hi Art
     
     
      I sent a message to the SPSS list
        and
        I get the following message.
     
     
      I do not have the administrator's
        email
        address. Can you sent it to me please?
     
     
      Also my agency uses IBM Lotus
        notes
        as the official email software. I personally cannot change any
        settings
        or  
     
      features on it.
     
     
      Your posting to the SPSSX-L list has been
          rejected
          because it contains an
          attachment  of type  'MULTIPART/ALTERNATIVE'. The  SPSSX-L
          list  has been
          configured to reject  such attachments; please contact the
           list
          owner at
          [hidden email]  for more information.
     
     
      Can you help me please? There is
        no
        other way I can access the list serve.
     
     
       I am not authorised to use the
        SPSS discussion list through the internet since it is forum.
     
     
      many thanks
     
      regards
     
      thara
     
     
      My message:
     
     
      Hi Maurice, David and Art
         
          Thank you so much for helping me with the syntax to calculate
           'average
         
          annual percentage change in SPSS'.
         
          My apologies if i was not clear in explaining what i wanted to
          calculate.
         
          I wanted to measure the  avgchange over the 5 years.
         
          Art - the syntax you sent me worked perfectly. This is
          extremely useful.
         
          You are absolutely right in your observation that the average
          change and
         
          annual growth rate can be different.
         
          Prior to sending my request to the list I managed to calculate
          it  as
         
          follows using  Excel:
         
          which translates to this in my Excel file
         
                             
                           =(C9/C5)^(1/5)-1
         
          I was wondering if there is way in SPSS to do this without the
          aggregate
         
          process.
         
          many thanks
          thara
     
     
       
         
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