There are situations in which the way the data is structured needs to be altered before analytics can be conducted. This is related to the unit of analysis required for certain types of statistical comparisons. In most cases, the fact that the organization of the original data will not work is obvious but the way to address the problem is not immediately evident. SPSS Statistics includes a feature to restructure data to address the most common types of challenges.
There are three basic types of data restructuring that can be performed in SPSS using the restructure data wizard accessible via the Restructure choice on the Data menu. These choices can be seen along with a brief description in the following screenshot. By comparing the structure of the data you have with the structure necessary for the analysis you want to perform, the best approach to...
