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SPSS® 12.0 Command Syntax Reference

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Figure 7 Multiple Tables with Different Column Labels<br />

OMS 1127<br />

• The first table has columns labeled Beginning Salary and Current Salary, which are not<br />

present in the second table, resulting in missing values for those variables for cases from<br />

the second table.<br />

• Conversely, the second table has columns labeled Education level and Months since hire,<br />

which are not present in the first table, resulting in missing values for those variables for<br />

cases from the first table.<br />

• Mismatched variables like those in this example can occur even with tables of the same<br />

subtype. In fact, in this example both tables are the same subtype.<br />

Data Files Not Created from Multiple Tables<br />

If any tables do not have the same number of row elements as the other tables, no data file<br />

will be created. The number of rows doesn’t have to be the same; the number of row elements<br />

that become variables in the data file must be the same.<br />

For example, a two-variable crosstabulation and a three-variable crosstabulation from<br />

CROSSTABS contain different numbers of row elements, since the "layer" variable is actually<br />

nested within the row variable in the default three-variable crosstabulation display.

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