Recoding using the Utilities Menu
1. Open bdeshd1.sav
2. Go to Variable View by clicking on button in the bottom, left corner of the page.
3. In the row for the variable ACPRVF select the cell under the column Missing Values. Click the small gray box that appears in the corner of the cell and then click on the dot marked Discrete missing values. Type in the value that was out of range 64.3.
4. Click OK.
**If you are cleaning the dataset, you should also set the 99.9 in the ACPRVM to missing as well.
To check that the exercise has worked, you can run descriptives to see what the minimum and maximum values are for that variable. Use the following steps to check that 64.3 is now missing in ACPRVF.
1. Click on Analyze, Descriptive Statistics, and Descriptives.
2. Enter ACPRVF in the variable box and click on OK.
The variable now has a maximum of 29.2, so the missing value method worked...the 64.3 is gone.