Re: Retrieving original varaible sequence

Posted by Art Kendall on May 24, 2013; 2:41pm
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Retrieving-original-varaible-sequence-tp5720394p5720397.html

SORT VARIABLES

SORT VARIABLES [BY] {NAME          } [({A})}
                    {TYPE          }   {D}
                    {FORMAT        }
                    {LABEL         }
                    {VALUES        }
                    {MISSING       }
                    {MEASURE       }
                    {ROLE          }
                    {COLUMNS       }
                    {ALIGNMENT     }
                    {ATTRIBUTE name}

Is there anything about the variables names that would work with SORT variables.

Do you have another file with the variables in the desired order? APPLY DICTIONARY

Are there parts of the variable name  the could be sorted it it were parsed? DISPLAY cut-and-paste edit in a text editor so you would have a new string you could paste in to something like MATCH files ... / KEEP = that string

Is the original variable name embedded  at one end or the other of the label?


On 5/24/2013 9:43 AM, John F Hall [via SPSSX Discussion] wrote:

Pure laziness on my part, but I’ve downloaded the *.sav file for the NORC GSS 2008.  The variables are in alphabetical order: is there a way to return them to the original questionnaire order?  That way, if I have the questionnaire in front of me I can use it as documentation etc.

 

 

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