User Guide

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Sorting and Sel
ecting Data
This opens the Split File dialog box.
Figure 10-2
Split File di
alog box
E Select Compare groups or Organize output by groups. The examples following these
steps show the differences between these two options.
E Select Gender (gender) to split the file into separate groups for these variables.
You can use numeric, short string, and long string variables as grouping variables. A
separate analysis is performed for each subgroup defined by the grouping variables. If
you select multiple grouping variables, the order in which they appear on the Groups
Based On list determines the manner in which cases are grouped.