Two Step Cluster Analysis

Posted by waqasjeral on Mar 15, 2013; 11:56am
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Two-Step-Cluster-Analysis-tp5718704.html

hi

I have a data files that contain not more than 12 columns but around 3000+ entries in each column. The first four are names of locations while next eight column contain numeric data for entry and exit. When I perform Two Step Cluster Analysis in SPSS with first four variables as categorical and rest variables as numeric, I get only one cluster with all 100% values and there is no good interpretation that I can make.

My supervisor told me to change few string variables to numeric one, but how and what variables while only the name of locations is shown as string variable.

Please help.