Re: merging files and doing simple stats

[Ben Pfaff]

Gordon Handford <address@hidden> writes:

> New to PSPP (0.7.5 version run on Windows 7 home premium).  Want to merge
> four files and run simple stats comparing portions of the files that have
> overlapping fields.  I have built one file with about 250 variables, all
> named, with 94 cases each from one of four versions of a survey.  Need to
> merge data from four online copies of the same four surveys.  I have cleaned
> up the online versions so they align with the variables in the PSPP file,
> have created CSV files, can successfully import those CSV files to PSPP.  But
> when I try to "merge" (add a file to the existing PSPP  by "importing" the
> imported file simply replaces the original data.  How can I build the omnibus
> file that will allow comparisons between identical components of the four
> versions?

You probably want one of these commands documented in the user
manual:
        
http://pspp.benpfaff.org/~blp/pspp-master/20110208030506/user-manual/html_node/Combining-Data-Files.html#Combining-Data-Files
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Ben Pfaff 
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