Split Spss File Into Multiple Files. Browse to the file you want to split. How to use the split file command in spss 1.
Browse to the file you want to split. Now you can drag the grouping variable. Turning off split file when you no longer want to split your analyses by group you can turn split file off through the same window you used to turn it on.
A macro could be written in spss syntax to loop through the values of the split file variable and save an spss data file in each iteration of the loop.
In order to split the file spss requires that the data be sorted with respect to the splitting variable. Data split file once in the menu you can choose to have the data split within the same data so two separate datasets are not created but rather results of analysis are just presented separately or if you d like separate new datasets created in which case it will probably ask you to name the new datasets. Click the ok button. In order to deal with the above mentioned scenarios this article covers how to split a pdf file into multiple pdfs programmatically.
