 Dear students, now we are going to learn how to recode a variable in SPSS software. In SPSS software, we can recode variable into two ways, recode into a same variable and recode into a different variable. In this module, we are going to see how to recode a variable into a same variable. If I talk about the command of this procedure, you have to click the transform and in transform you have to click on the recode and into recode you have to click in the recode into same variable. Once you click it on the recode into the same variable, this type of dialogue box will be open and at your screen. You have to select the variable which you want to recode. Basically, recoding is done on indexed level variables or you have to recode the composite scores that you have measured for that. Here we have selected the variable for recording, which is journal anxiety disorder. After selecting it, you will bring it into this dialogue box. When you bring it into this dialogue box, it will ask you old and new values. When you click on it, it will ask you what are your values, new and what are the old values and what are the new values. When you click on that tab, you will see a screen showing something like this. In this, you have to enter your values. Basically, the values that are entered in the recoding are done in range form. As I have shown you here, this variable which we are recoding, journal anxiety disorder, its range is 1 to 21. The score which the respondents have reported is from 1 to 21. So, we have created two levels for this. One is our range from 1 to 10 and the other is from 11 to 21. So, here you have its lowest value and here you have its highest value. When you write, you will write its new value here. For example, we have given the value of 11 to 21 and we have given the value of 2 to 1 to 10. After writing this, we will click on the add with this button and it will add in here. After adding both the values, we will click on the continue tab. You will get this interface again. When these two add in here, we will continue. When we click on it, you will get this interface again. After adding it here, you have to click on the OK tab. When you click on the OK tab, the first score which was in this shape, the general anxiety disorder, has now come in this shape. That is, we have made two values of 1 and 2 through its range. Now, these are numerical values. We are not conveying any meaning. We have made these two values to see what is the level of the general anxiety disorder. For this, we will have to go to the variable view. We have entered the new values here. We will have to go to the values section and add its labels. For example, we have added 1 stand for the low and 2 stand for the high. When you add it here, this data which was in this shape has now come in this shape, in the form of high and low. Recording into the same variable is done because we have taken a composite score at the nominal level. Now, we have to judge a composite score from one of the data and see the prevalence of something at the level.