SPSSisFun: Converting Text (string) data to Numeric data

In this video I show you how to convert text data into numeric data.

If you have any questions please feel free to post them in the comments section below and I will get back to you as soon as I can.

[sandraire]

This video is a blessing to me. I was having serious issues with my project work and was almost giving up but watching your video has solved the issue, I tried what I learnt from your video and it worked immediately. I'm so grateful to have come across your page. Thank you so much for helping me.

[elroz]

I would hit million of like button if i could. You save my day on this christmas. I have to skip my christmas because i was stuck in this area to get the string transform into numeric... Many Merry christmas everyone

[Runsheeg]

Only God knows how much I was frustrated. imagine I was thinking of editing the excel spreadsheet data and then making SPSS entry again from scratch. God bless you, bro. I was even ready to pay for this wallahi. Some YouTubers are really life and energy saving.

[trinirastawoman]

OMG!!! Thank you so much for this video!!! I used google forms for my survey and when I downloaded the results it was all in string format. Praise and thanks you have saved me from hours of work!!!

[DaneSchneider-yr]

You are seriously a life saver my friend, I was going nuts trying to figure this out. THANK YOU

[leme]

You saved my grad student ass. Thank you!

[rafli]

Bless this video, i hope your information will be useful for future student that might see this video

[obasioluchukwu]

Thanks a lot. Mine has worked. I didn't notice earlier because it was a really large spreadsheet

[msrukmanithakur]

Thanks for video I had my exam of computers today

[christianhume]

VERY, VERY HELPFUL!! Thank you so much!!

[skotkirkpatrick]

This was very helpful, now I can run reports and make graphs with my categorical data. I have a question though: When I make a histogram or other chart, how do I show the value labels? With 20 or more values and only seeing the number and not an actual name it's difficult to interpret. Hope you see this, thanks.

[theyaodenfamily]

OMG I hope I already found this video when I was making my last project on university 😭.

[d-jm]

Thanks a lot..
But can you help me to know which test to apply for Multiple choice grid questions.

[chih-fang-hsu]

What do I do if I want to recode multiple variables? For example if there's 10 questions with 3 options(high, medium, low), how do I recode them to 3, 2, 1 all at once?

[AwsYahya]

Thanks a lot for the informative video. I have done the manual record yet the OK option is grayed out (unclickable). I don't know where my mistake is.

[aishaosman]

Veeery helpful video, Thank youuuu very much

[dr.hanawamin]

Hello, it is so easy, but I have problem in downloading the program... if you record such video about the downloading steps is very good...

[katyv]

You saved me too! I have more questions, though. For instance, do I now change the "measure" from nominal to ordinal? Another, how do I set up matrix survey question data with multi-q and multi-answer? It keeps running stats on each separate variable and I want to look at them together... Thanks.

[ebarrago]

Thank you for your video!! It was very helpful!
I do have a query... When I imported the first answers from xls it came as a string (text) and I created different variables and applied all values.
I have imported more data from another xls spreadsheet and I do have to turn it all again in numerical values. How can apply my values to the new string data without double-clicking when on reply??? It's driving me mental....

[jonesprofit]

Thanks alot. It's really helpful.