I support Franks view. I'm a professional market researcher and we do always manual coding for open questions.
Cheers Matthias Matthias Fäth Im Mediapark 12 50670 Köln t: 0221-2907973 m: 0171-9832175 e: m.fa...@gmx.de 2015-01-17 17:54 GMT+01:00 ftr <news....@free.fr>: > With 360 cases consider the time that it already took you to search the > internet, read, try. > Do it manually. It's ugly, against the engineers' honor :-( > But you have full control of the results. > And it's rapid. > > Regards, > ftr > > On 16/01/2015 21:54, Benjamin Oppermann wrote: > >> Hello, >> This is basically a question about cleaning up my data: >> I made a survey where for some of the questions, the answer could be any >> number of keywords. The informant could be more or less specific to >> their liking. This was intended to work like tags (they are >> comma-separated), but we didn't consider that they would still end up in >> the same column of the output. >> This means, for example the values for "place of origin" could be as >> precise as "Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany, Europe" or "Hannover, >> Germany", or just "Hannover". All in the same variable! >> I currently have this variable specified as a string in PSPP, which >> means each represents a different value for PSPP. >> I want to achieve an outcome where all these values would read the same, >> i.e. the region, "Nidersachsen" in this example. Since my sample >> includes ~360 cases, I'd like to find a way to do this automatically. >> I might be able to do it in another program like a spreadsheet >> application or GoogleRefine/OpenRefine, but maybe do you know a way to >> recode this variable in PSPP? Any suggestions? >> Regards, >> Ben >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pspp-users mailing list >> Pspp-users@gnu.org >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Pspp-users mailing list > Pspp-users@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users >
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