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Find most frequent combinations of multiple responses (e.g., courses taken)

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I have a data set of student enrollment in college course. Each record has a student ID variable (ID) and the name of a course in which the student enrolled this quarter (coursename, a 9-character string variable). Each student may have taken up to 5 courses, so there may be up to 5 records for each student in the data set. I wish to determine the most frequently occurring course combinations that were taken by students. There are several ways to report the frequency of each course name in the data set, but I do not see a way to report the frequency of combinations of courses taken by the same students. Can this be accomplished in SPSS?

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