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In addition to having variable values and meanings in your codebook, you want to assign variable labels within SPSS. This will allow analysis to use the words, instead of the numbers.


For example, if eye colors were coded as:
1 = blue
2 = green
3 = brown
4 = hazel
5 = other

The output could use the words, "blue", "green", "brown, "hazel" and "other", as long as you provide these LABELS.