Hi John, I have never meant to set the "WEIGTH" on the file, so I probably did it by mistake, maybe using a keyboard shortcut? Or probably I have clicked the "weight" icon without noticing it.
Thanks for your help. Michele On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 11:29 AM John Darrington < j...@darrington.wattle.id.au> wrote: > Hi Michele, > > I see what the problem is. > > If you run the command > > SYSFILE INFO "VDS_survey_02.sav". > > You will see that the dataset is weighted by the variable "offroadside". > This is clearly inappropriate. Since offroadside contains at least one > SYSIS value, there can be no meaningfull frequency information. > > You can fix this by running the command: > > WEIGHT OFF. > > > Perhaps you inadvertently set the weighting when you entered the data? > If not then it may indicate a bug somewhere. > > > A couple of things I notice which we need to improve in the next > release: > > 1. Mosts commands give a warning when a weight value is > SYSIS, but the Frequencies command does not. > > 2. When this dataset is loaded in the GUI and the menu, > Data|Weight Cases is opened, the dialog box should indicate the current > weight variable, but it seems not to do that for some reason. > > > Thanks for reporting this issue. > > J' > > > On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 11:15:21AM +0100, Michele Mor wrote: > Hi John, > > I did not import the data. > My steps: > 1. Open a BLANK data file using the GUI. > 2. Create empty variables using the syntax. (For example: String var > (A3) > .. Numeric var (F8.0) ... ) > 3. Manually enter the data using the GUI, one cell at the time. > 4. Do a frequency of a variable using the GUI and using syntax > command. > Results: all values had frequency of 0. > > There was no "Original raw data", no syntax to import the file. > > As I have stated in my previous email, when I did import a text data > file, > then Frequencies worked. > > Regards, > Michele > >
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