Wing
thanks, I'd been using encode.
Patrick
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Tak Wing Chan
Sent: 16 April 2003 12:36
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: missing values
Shouldn't the following do the job?
mvdecode varname, mv(6)
Wing
Patrick Sturgis wrote:
>I have a data file that has the value 6 for the response don't know in
>attitude items. I want to specify the value '6' as missing so that it is
>dropped from analyses. This should be simple but I can't fathom how to do
>it. Thanks in advance,
>
>PatrickDr Patrick Sturgis
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