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Basic data operations in SPSS for Windows 17
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Figure 28: Conditional compute – defining the transformation
(iii) Click on the button marked and select .
(iv) Select gender from the list of variables and transfer it to the box on the right using the
transfer arrow .
(v) Complete the condition by typing =‘f’ after the word ‘gender’.
The dialog box should now look like Figure 29.
Figure 29: Conditional compute – specifying the condition
(vi) Click on .
If we were to click on at this stage, the value of salincr for male employees would be
undefined. It would be assigned the system missing value. To avoid this, we could have
performed an initial unconditional compute operation, by assigning a value of 0 to salincr for all
employees. An alternative method is to use the Paste button and insert this extra transformation
into the SPSS commands.
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