Computing New Fields

If you are in distributed mode, connected to a remote server (available with IBM® SPSS® Statistics Server), you can compute new fields before you read the data into IBM SPSS Statistics.

You can also compute new fields after you read the data into IBM SPSS Statistics, but computing new fields in the database can save time for large data sources.

New Field Name. The name must comply with IBM SPSS Statistics variable name rules.

Expression. Enter the expression to compute the new field. You can drag existing field names from the Fields list and functions from the Functions list.