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Chapter 6
E
Click Copy.
or
E Select (cli
ck) a variable in the Scanned Variable List to which you want to copy
defined banded categories.
E Click From Another Variable.
E Select the variable with the defined banded categories that you want to copy.
E Click Copy.
If you have specified value labels for the variable from which you are copying the
banding specifications, those are also copied.
Note:Oncey
ou click
OK in the Visual Bander main dialog box to create new banded
variables (or close the dialog box in any other way), you cannot use the Visual Bander
to copy those banded categories to other variables.
User-Missing Values in the Visual Bander
Values defined as user-missing (values identified as codes for missing data) for
the source variable are not included in the banded categories for the new variable.
User-miss
ing values for the source variables are copied as user-missing values for the
new variable, and any defined value labels for missing value codes are also copied.
If a missing value code conflicts with one of the banded category values for the new
variable
, the missing value code for the new variable is recoded to a nonconflicting
value by adding 100 to the highest banded category value. For example, if a value of
1 is defined as user-missing for the source variable and the new variable will have
six bande
d categories, any cases with a value of 1 for the source variable will have a
value of 106 for the new variable, and 106 will be defined as user-missing. If the
user-missing value for the source variable had a defined value label, that label will be
retaine
d as the value label for the recoded value of the new variable.
Note: If the source variable has a defined range of user-missing values of the form
LO-n,wheren is a positive number, the corresponding user-missing values for the
new var
iablewillbenegativenumbers.