SPSS® 12.0 Command Syntax Reference

Example
AUTORECODE 165
DATA LIST / RELIGION 1-8 (A) Y 10-13.
MISSING VALUES RELIGION (’ ’).
BEGIN DATA
CATHOLIC 2013
PROTEST 3234
JEWISH 5169
NONE 714
OTHER 2321
. . .
END DATA.
AUTORECODE VARIABLES=RELIGION /INTO=NRELIG /PRINT /DESCENDING.
MANOVA Y BY NRELIG(1,5).
• Because MANOVA requires consecutive integer values for factor levels, the string variable
RELIGION is recoded into a numeric variable. The five values for RELIGION are first sorted
in descending order (Z to A) and are then assigned values 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 in target variable
NRELIG.
• Since a blank space is specified as a user-missing value, it is assigned the value 6. In the
table produced by PRINT, the value 6 is displayed as 6M for the variable NRELIG to flag
it as a user-missing value.
• The values of RELIGION are used as value labels for the corresponding new values in
NRELIG.
• Target variable NRELIG is used as a factor variable in MANOVA.
VARIABLES Subcommand
VARIABLES specifies the variables to be recoded. VARIABLES is required and must be
specified first. The actual keyword VARIABLES is optional.
• Values from the specified variables are recoded and stored in the target variables listed on
INTO. Values of the original variables are unchanged.
INTO Subcommand
INTO provides names for the target variables that store the new values. INTO is required and
must immediately follow VARIABLES.
• The number of target variables named or implied on INTO must equal the number of
source variables listed on VARIABLES.
Example
AUTORECODE VARIABLES=V1 V2 V3 /INTO=NEWV1 TO NEWV3 /PRINT.
• AUTORECODE stores the recoded values of V1, V2, and V3 into target variables named
NEWV1, NEWV2, and NEWV3.