A Data Set Contains Information on 100 Married Couples

question 27

Multiple Choice

A data set contains information on 100 married couples. One of the variables is the husband's age; another is the wife's age. To create a new variable which is the difference between the husband's age and the wife's age, you would use which SPSS procedure?

• A) Compute
• B) Recode
• C) Scale
• D) Split File

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