Hello, everyone!
I am a second year doctoral student and I am in need of some help regarding the coding/syntax within a data set on SPSS.
Context: I am conducting an analysis on dating violence and have two variables, physical and sexual violence. Two variables are already coded: sexual abuse (not dating, yes, no) and physical abuse (not dating, yes, no). I want to create a new variable (teen dating violence) that is coded as follows: not dating, experienced sexual abuse, experienced physical abuse, experienced both, experienced none. I am dealing with 14,000+ cases so I don't want to go through each case by hand. Can anyone help me with the syntax to accomplish this? Thank you in advance!
Hello Jessica,
Open a syntax window (File / New / Syntax...) and enter the following commands (starting with COMPUTE). If you've used some other code or variable names, be sure to change those to fit your data set.
* spss syntax to create new variable, teen dating violence (tdv)
* sa = sexual abuse
* pa = physical abuse
* presumed code for sa and pa:
* 1 = not dating
* 2 = yes
* 3 = no
compute tdv = 0 .
if ((sa = 1) and (pa 1)) tdv = 0 .
if (pa = 1) and (sa 1)) tdv = 0 .
if ((sa = 1) and (pa = 1)) tdv = 1 .
if ((sa = 2) and (pa = 3)) tdv = 2 .
if ((sa = 2) and (pa = 2)) tdv = 4 .
if ((sa =3) and (pa = 2)) tdv = 3 .
if ((sa = 3) and (pa = 3)) tdv = 5 .
execute .
value labels tdv 0 'Invalid/missing' 1 'Not dating' 2 'SA only' 3 'PA only' 4 'Both SA and PA' 5 'Neither SA nor PA' .
missing values tdv (0) .
execute .
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Good luck with your work!
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