I have a SPSS file that has 600 variables and for each of them there can be 0 to 4 different missing values. I am trying to change the missing values according to this pattern:
996 -> -6
997 -> -7
998 -> -8
999 -> -9
Where 996 is "No object" , 997 is "Does not know" , 998 is "Refused", 999 is "Non declared". I would need the changed numbers to have the same labels. There are other value labels in the variables therefore i can't simply delete the labels and add the new ones.
Is there a way to either delete specific value labels or change the value using a script?
This seems a duplicated question, which I answered myself sometime ago. Through conventional syntax I don't think it is still possible.
Well, nothing is impossible in the realms of computing. Raynald Levesque outlines a workaround solution here. And Ruben Geert van den Berg provides a python solution on his website also.