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The example below is a facsimile of information appearing in the codebook for a typical variable. The numbers in superscript do not appear but are reference to the descriptions which follow this example.
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A6B(1) A6. Ever employed as party official(2)
Print Format: F1(3)
Write Format: F1(4)
b. Were you ever employed as a State or Federal party official? (5)
+------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------+-----------------------+-----------+
| | Candidate's party | House | Result | All |
|A6. Ever employed as +-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+ |
| party official | Lib/NP | ALP | Dem | Grn | One N | Reps | Senate | Lost | Won | |
+------------------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+
|Yes(6) | (7)4.7% | 8.0% | 7.3% | 3.1% | 4.1% | 3.7% | 17.5% | 4.9% | 8.8% | 5.6% |
|No(6) | 95.3% | 92.0% | 92.7% | 96.9% | 95.9% | 96.3% | 82.5% | 95.1% | 91.3% | 94.4% |
+------------------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+
|Number of cases | 85 | 88 | 123 | 97 | 74 | 404 | 63 | 387 | 80 | 467 |
+------------------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+
Valid cases 467 Missing cases 10
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(1) An abbreviated (8 character maximum) variable name.
(2) An expanded version of the variable name, or variable label (40 character maximum).
(3) Indicates the format, that is, the type and width, in which the variable would be displayed. Valid types are integer, decimal and character. The width is the number of columns for the variables.
(4) Column locations of the left-most and right-most characters of variable in file.
(5) Indicates the full text (question) of the variable description supplied by the original collector of the data. The question text and the numbers and letters appear at the beginning reflect the original wording of the questionnaire item.
(6) Textual definitions of the codes, or value labels.
(7) The relative frequency (percentage) of occurrence of each code value in the data file.
NOTE 1 The variable name, variable label, value labels and missing
values are reproduced in the SPSS set-up file which is
distributed with the data file.
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