This document provides technical tips for restructuring data in IBM SPSS Statistics, focusing on merging two files by transforming multiple records into a single row for each individual. It outlines steps to use the 'reshape data wizard' to convert data into the desired format, including creating variables for maximum and average scores. For additional details, it references a dedicated SPSS analytics partner website.

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Restructuring Data
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Tech Tips - Restructuring Data
We want to merge these two files together
1. Restructure data
2. One row for each individual
3. Each score becomes a new variable
4. Merge with second file

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• Restructure Data Wizard: Makes it easy to restructure your data.
• Go to Data menu and select Restructure.
• Note that wizard replaces the current data set with the restructured data.
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• Restructure selected variables into cases
• Restructure selected cases into variables
• Transpose all data
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• We have a dataset where we have multiple records
in rows.
• For the individual with id number 1 there are 5
records.
• We can see the 5 records for number 2.
• We want to restructure the data so that each id has
one row with the scores.
• We want to create a variable with the max score.
• We want to obtain an average score.
• Need to merge new restructured data with attitudinal
data
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