SPSS Programming and Data Management, 4th Edition: A Guide for ...

29GettingDataintoSPSSFigure 3-3Active dataset in SPSS• FROM SurveyResponses LEFT OUTER JOIN [Value Labels] will includeall records from the table SurveyResponses even if there are no records in the ValueLabels table that meet the matching criteria.• ON SurveyResponses.Internet = [Value Labels].[InternetValue] matches records based on the value of the field Internet in the tableSurveyResponses and the value of the field Internet Value in the table Value Labels.• The resulting active dataset has an Internet Label value of No for all cases with avalue of 0 for Internet and Yes for all cases with a value of 1 for Internet.• Since the left outer join includes all records from SurveyResponses, there are casesin the active dataset with values of 8 or 9 for Internet and no value (a blank string)for Internet Label, since the values of 8 and 9 do not occur in the Internet ValuefieldinthetableValue Labels.Reading Excel FilesSPSS can read individual Excel worksheets and multiple worksheets in thesame Excel workbook. The basic mechanics of reading Excel files are relativelystraightforward—rows are read as cases and columns are read as variables. However,reading a typical Excel spreadsheet—where the data may not start in row 1,column 1—requires a little extra work, and reading multiple worksheets requires