Copying Binned Categories

When creating binned categories for one or more variables, you can copy the binning specifications from another variable to the currently selected variable or from the selected variable to multiple other variables.

To Copy Binning Specifications

1. From the menus in the Data Editor window choose:

   Transform > Visual Binning...

2. Select the numeric scale and/or ordinal variables for which you want to create new categorical (binned) variables.
3. Click Continue.
4. Define binned categories for at least one variable--but do not click OK or Paste.
5. Select (click) a variable in the Scanned Variable List for which you have defined binned categories.
6. Click To Other Variables.
7. Select the variables for which you want to create new variables with the same binned categories.
8. Click Copy.

   or

9. Select (click) a variable in the Scanned Variable List to which you want to copy defined binned categories.
10. Click From Another Variable.
11. Select the variable with the defined binned categories that you want to copy.
12. Click Copy.

If you have specified value labels for the variable from which you are copying the binning specifications, those are also copied.

Note: Once you click OK in the Visual Binning main dialog box to create new binned variables (or close the dialog box in any other way), you cannot use Visual Binning to copy those binned categories to other variables.