Save all your current work, then open a new instance of SPSS. Make sure
that you put warnings, etc. into the output file. <edit> <options>
<viewer>. Cut-and-paste then run the syntax after the sig block.


Art
Art@DrKendall.org
Social Research Consultants
University Park, MD  USA
(301) 864-5570

new file.
* this program creates 10 "Likert" variables  .
set seed = 20050727.
input program.
vector item (10,f1).
loop id = 1 to 45.
loop #k  = 1 to 10.
compute item(#k) = rnd(rv.uniform(1,5)).
end loop.
end case.
end loop.
end file.
end input program.
formats id (f3).
value labels item1 to item5
    1    'SD'
    2    'D'
    3    'Neither'
    4    'A'
    5    'SA'.
compute myscale = sum(item1 to item10).

Plance Debouver wrote:

>Any SPSS syntax that can allows  to create a Likert scale with 10 variables 
and fill it with random interger values between 1-5 with 45 cases?
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