Exercise: Once you create the data entry format, use the CHECK module to customize your entry for
some of the data values.
Analyzing Data • ANALYSIS produces lists, frequencies, tables (cross tabulations), statistics and
graphs.
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• Move the cursor to "ANALYSIS of data" and press the Enter key.
• Use the "READ" command to choose a dataset.
Example: Read birthwet.rec • Once
your
.Rec file is retrieved, you can perform the tasks explained above.
Example freq age
freq sex
tables age sex
List sex
Update age sex etc.
• If you press the function key "F2”, you will see the various "commands" that perform
different tasks.
• If you press the function key "F3”, you will see the list of “variables" that you have
created using the EPED program.
• If
you
press the function key "F5", your output will go to the printer. If you press it again, the output will go to the screen.
DEFINE and RECODE -
These commands are very important in facilitating the analysis of
data.
• DEFINE allows creation of new variables for use in analysis.
• Variable names in the DEFINE statement must be 10 or fewer characters.
• Variable names do not begin with a number.
Example :
DEFINE age1 ## (a newly created variable)
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This could be used in a RECODE statement to provide labels for a numerically coded age
variable.
• The RECODE command is used to form several categories (groups).
