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Chapter 4
necessary for our sample data file. Even though it contains over 6,000 cases, it
doesn’t take very long to scan that many cases.
E Drag and drop Owns computer [ownpc] through Owns VCR [ownvcr] into the
Variabl es t
oScanlist.
You might notice that the measurement level icons for all of the selected variables
indicate that they are scale variables, not categorical variables. By default, all numeric
variables a
re assigned the scale measurement level, even if the numeric values are
actually just codes that represent categories. All of the selected variables in this
example are really categorical variables that use the numeric values 0 and 1 to stand
for No and Y
es, respectively—and one of the variable properties that we’ll change
with Define Variable Properties is the measurement level.
E Click Continue.
Figure 4-2
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Define Var
iable Properties main di alog box
E In the Scanned Variable List, select ownpc.