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