I am preparing for analyses of the determinants of partner choice in SPSS, but basically I can't get off the ground because I don't know how to create new variables based on the information of each respondent's spouse (i.e. education, wages, social background, ethnicity etc.).
Each respondent is currently identified by an ID#, and exist two places in the matrix: as unit/respondent and as a spouse (either wife or husband), instantiated in a different column. What I need is to use info from each row of variables pertaining to an individual as respondent - to create new variables in the row of each person's spouse.
If it helps, I also have a separate file with all couples linked row-wise, as variables of the same unit - evidently with the same ID# as in my "variables-file" (yesterday, however, I merged these files - hopefully correctly...).
I hope this made sense, I am new to statistical data analysis - and even to the most basic software on the market.
//Ferdinand, Norway