Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2010 08:41:04 -0700
Reply-To: Bruce Weaver <bruce.weaver@hotmail.com>
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From: Bruce Weaver <bruce.weaver@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Displaced labels using display labels
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John, it looks like you can limit how much info you get using the VARINFO
sub-command.
/VARINFO
POSITION LABEL TYPE FORMAT MEASURE ATTRIBUTES VALUELABELS MISSING
RESERVEDATTRIBUTES
If you remove all of the options except POSITION and LABEL, I suspect you'll
get the table you want.
Bruce
John F Hall wrote:
>
> Far too much info in codebook: I just want a summary to work from while I
> get my head round the structure and contents of the file. This is an
> extract from a different survey, but a hard copy I can annotate by hand
> comes in very useful when exploring someone else's data.
>
> Variable
> Position
> Label
>
> Q1
> 1
> How many athletic events attended
>
> Q2
> 2
> which sports attended
>
> Q3.1
> 3
> most important reason
>
> Q3.2
> 4
> 2nd most important reason
>
> Q3.3
> 5
> 3rd most important reason
>
> Q3.4
> 6
> 4th most important reason
>
> Q3.5
> 7
> 5th most important reason
>
> Q3.6
> 8
> 6th most important reason
>
> Q3.7
> 9
> least important reason
>
> Q4.1
> 10
> most enticing giveway
>
> Q4.2
> 11
> 2nd most enticing giveaway
>
> Q4.3
> 12
> 3rd most enticing giveaway
>
> Q4.4
> 13
> 4th most enticing giveaway
>
> Q4.5
> 14
> least enticing giveaway
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jon K Peck
> To: John F Hall
> Cc: SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Sent: Monday, July 05, 2010 3:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [SPSSX-L] Displaced labels using display labels
>
>
>
> I have never used DISPLAY LABELS before, but trying it, I don't see this
> problem.
> However, have you considered the CODEBOOK command for documenting the
> data? It's quite versatile and can combine summary statistics with the
> meta data. (Analyze>Reports>Codebook on the menus).
>
> Jon Peck
> SPSS, an IBM Company
> peck@us.ibm.com
> 312-651-3435
>
>
> From: John F Hall <johnfhall@orange.fr>
> To: SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Date: 07/05/2010 03:21 AM
> Subject: [SPSSX-L] Displaced labels using display labels
> Sent by: "SPSSX(r) Discussion" <SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
> I'm helping a neophyte SPSS user on a large and complex survey. I'm
> running SPSS on a 10% sample looking for empty cases and redundant
> variables. Trial runs for this and for test tables work fine. However,
> good practice demands useful documentation, but I already have a problem.
>
> Data Editor shows:
>
> Name Label
>
> 1 taken_survey_id
> 2 grade Grade
> 3 token_id.559 (559)Grade 9
> 4 token_id.560 (560)Grade 10
>
> ..but when I run:
>
> display labels .
>
> I get:
>
> Variable Position Label
>
> taken_survey_id 449 <none>
> grade 1 <none>
> token_id.559 2 Grade
> token_id.560 3 (560)Grade 10
>
> All the labels have been displaced by one line: any idea why?
>
>
>
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