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Getting Started
• Click on the first cell in the row of the pane for describing variables and enter the first variable number.
As soon as you begin to enter information in the row marked with an asterisk, a new row is created
just after the current row and the row you are editing displays a pencil in the row header. Pressing
Enter or Tab you move to the next field. Now enter variable name and width. Skip the rest of fields
by pressing Enter or Tab and accept the description by pressing Enter or Tab on the last field. Note
that the default location is provided by WinIDAMS when variable description row has been accepted.
• When you press Enter or Tab on the last field, the pencil disappears which means that the row has
been accepted after some rudimentary checking of the fields. The current field is now the first field of
the next row (marked with an asterisk) and you can enter the description for the 2nd variable, Age. Do
the same for variable 3, Sex, but give this variable an MD1 (missing data) code of 9 (the non-response
code).
• After accepting the description of variable 3, the first field (variable number) of the row with an asterisk
becomes the current field. Click on any field of the row just entered (variable 3, Sex) to make it the
current row.
• Switch to the pane for codes and their labels by clicking on the code field in the first row. Note that
this pane is synchronized with the variable selected in the pane for describing variables.
• Enter 1 in the code field. Again, as soon as you begin to enter code label, a new row with an asterisk
is created just after the current row and the row you are editing displays a pencil. Press Enter to move
to the next field, enter Male in the label field. Press Enter. The current field is now the code field of
the next row and you can enter code 2 with label Female and similarly for code 9.