Example (VARIABLE ATTRIBUTE Command)

VARIABLE ATTRIBUTE
  VARIABLES=Age Income1 Income2 Income3
  ATTRIBUTE=AnswerFormat('Fill-in')
  /VARIABLES=Gender OwnHome MortgageType 
  ATTRIBUTE=AnswerFormat('Single select')
  /VARIABLES=AvgIncome
  ATTRIBUTE=AnswerFormat('Computed value')
  /VARIABLES=AvgIncome
   ATTRIBUTE=Formula('mean(Income1, Income2, Income3)')
   /VARIABLES=AvgIncome
   ATTRIBUTE=DerivedFrom[1]('Income1')
   DerivedFrom[2]('Income2')
   DerivedFrom[3]('Income3').
DISPLAY ATTRIBUTES.

• The variables Age, Income1, Income2, and Income3 are assigned the variable attribute AnswerFormat with a value of Fill-in.
• The variables Gender, OwnHome, and MortgageType are assigned the variable attribute AnswerFormat with a value of Single select.
• The variable AvgIncome is assigned the variable attribute AnswerFormat with a value of Computed value.
• The variable AvgIncome is assigned the variable attribute Formula, with a value the describes the formula used to calculate the value of this variable.
• The variable AvgIncome is assigned the variable attribute array DerivedFrom, and each array value identifies one of the variables used to calculate the value of AvgIncome.
• DISPLAY ATTRIBUTES lists the variable attributes for each variable in the active dataset.

Figure 1. Variable attributes