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Creating a new character column by sorting multiple columns

abhi_dp — Sat, 10 Jun 2023 23:16:53 GMT

american_indian	asian	black	declined_race	multiracial	pacific_islander	unavilable_race	white
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1

Is there a simple way (without a script) to create a new column (race) that can sort each of the individual columns information? I would like the new column to be something like this:

american_indian	asian	black	declined_race	multiracial	pacific_islander	unavilable_race	white	Race
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	white
0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	asian
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	white
0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	black
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	white
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	white
1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	american_indian
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	white

Re: Creating a new character column by sorting multiple columns

Georg — Sun, 26 Jul 2020 19:42:38 GMT

Can be done by a formula using the if statement, there you are most flexible and can use conditions on other columns or even combinations of columns.

Re: Creating a new character column by sorting multiple columns

jerry_cooper — Sun, 26 Jul 2020 21:24:54 GMT

Selecting the columns you want to combine and then choosing Cols->Utilities->Combine Columns... from the menu will give you a dialog box in which you can specify the new column name and then check the "Selected Columns are Indicator Columns" box. Clicking OK will create the column you are looking for. Note that if a row could have more than one "1" you should also check the "Multiple Response" box, in which case, the entry in the new column will be the column names concatenated by the character chosen for delimiter ("," is the default).

Hope this helps.

-Jerry

Re: Creating a new character column by sorting multiple columns

abhi_dp — Sun, 26 Jul 2020 21:51:32 GMT

Thank you! That was easy :)