SPSS® 12.0 Command Syntax Reference

1564 TEMPORARY
Example
• The XSAVE command leaves temporary transformations in effect. SAVE, however, reads the
data and turns temporary transformations off after the file is written. (See example below.)
• TEMPORARY cannot be used with SORT CASES, MATCH FILES, ADD FILES, or COMPUTE
with a LAG function. If any of these commands follows TEMPORARY in the command
sequence, there must be an intervening procedure or command that reads the data to first
execute the TEMPORARY command.
• TEMPORARY cannot be used within the DO IF—END IF or LOOP—END LOOP structures.
SORT CASES BY SEX.
TEMPORARY.
SPLIT FILE BY SEX.
FREQUENCIES VARS=INCOME /STATISTICS=MEDIAN.
FREQUENCIES VARS=INCOME /STATISTICS=MEDIAN.
• SPLIT FILE applies to the first FREQUENCIES procedure, which generates separate median
income tables for men and women.
• SPLIT FILE is not in effect for the second FREQUENCIES procedure, which generates a
single median income table that includes both men and women.
Example
DATA LIST FILE=HUBDATA RECORDS=3
/1 #MOBIRTH #DABIRTH #YRBIRTH 6-11 DEPT88 19.
COMPUTE AGE=($JDATE - YRMODA(#YRBIRTH,#MOBIRTH,#DABIRTH))/365.25.
VARIABLE LABELS AGE ’EMPLOYEE’’S AGE’
DEPT88 ’DEPARTMENT CODE IN 1988’.
TEMPORARY.
RECODE AGE (LO THRU 20=1)(20 THRU 25=2)(25 THRU 30=3)(30 THRU 35=4)
(35 THRU 40=5)(40 THRU 45=6)(45 THRU 50=7)(50 THRU 55=8)
(55 THRU 60=9)(60 THRU 65=10)(65 THRU HI=11).
VARIABLE LABELS AGE ’EMPLOYEE AGE CATEGORIES’.
VALUE LABELS AGE 1 ’Up to 20’ 2 ’20 to 25’ 3 ’25 to 30’ 4 ’30 to 35’
5 ’35 to 40’ 6 ’40 to 45’ 7 ’45 to 50’ 8 ’50 to 55’
9 ’55 to 60’ 10 ’60 to 65’ 11 ’65 and older’.
FREQUENCIES VARIABLES=AGE.
MEANS AGE BY DEPT88.
• COMPUTE creates variable AGE from the dates in the data.
• FREQUENCIES uses the temporary version of variable AGE with temporary variable and
value labels.
• MEANS uses the unrecoded values of AGE and the permanent variable label.