Thank you for your support, but I managed to solve it in a different way. Via menu;
 
add < define new variable < newvariable=(oldvariable=1)
 
where the variable in brackets is the variable that has the 1-value!
 
 
Kind Regards,
 
Laurent Schuermans
 
 


 
2010/12/16 Allin Cottrell <cottrell@wfu.edu>
On Thu, 16 Dec 2010, Laurent Schuermans wrote:

> I have a bunch of dichotomious variables with categories 1 and 2
> that I want to recode to 0 and 1, which is easier for
> interpretation, but I don't know how to do this.

If you have a series y containing just 1s and 2s, and you want the
1s to become zeros and the 2s to become 1s then just subtract 1:

y -= 1

Take a look at the "dummify" command for more complex recoding
needs.

Allin Cottrell

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