To change the name of our variable to something meaningful, just click where it currently says VAR00001, and replace it with “Age”. At the moment, we only have one variable, so there’s only one row. And each row corresponds to a variable in the Data View. ![]() If you click on the Variable View tab, you’ll get a screen that looks like this.Įach column (Name, Type, Width, etc) represents a parameter of the variable. It’s possible to sort out both of these problems by switching to the Variable View (click the tab, as per the screenshot above), and specifying some of the parameters associated with the age variable. The variable name is not informative (VAR00001) and the ages have decimal points. ![]() You can immediately see there’s a problem. ![]() Let’s set up a variable for age by typing in five different ages (see screenshot below). Select the Data View – click on the tab at the bottom of the program window – start in the first cell of an empty column, and work downwards. In order to define a variable and set its parameters you need to get some data into SPSS. This tutorial will introduce you to the Variable View tab in SPSS, and teach you how to define variables – that is, specify their various parameters – within this view.
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