User Guide

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Reading Data
Field names are used to create variable names. If necessary, the names are converted
to valid variable names. The original field names are preserved as variable labels.
You can also
change the variable names before importing the database.
Figure 3-13
Define Variables step
E Click the Recode to Numeric cell in the Gender field. This option converts string
variables to integer variables and retains the original value as the value label for
the new variable.
E Click Next to continue.
If you are in distributed mode, connected to a remote server (available with SPSS
Server), the next step allows you sort the data before reading it into SPSS.