Widening Participation Uplift Factors Sample Code

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1 The following pseudo code and SPSS code is provided to illustrate the Widening Participation Uplift Factors data definition.

L_UPLF56 and L_UPLF67

2 The following SPSS code illustrates how to derive L_UPLF56 and L_UPLF67.

GET FILE ‘………………………..LEARNER data set’.

/*Match on the postcode file, which contains the uplift factors, to the learner file, by the learners home postcode.
SORT CASES BY L17.
RENAME VARIABLES (L17 = postcode).
MATCH FILES /FILE = *
 /TABLE = ‘…………………………………posctode dataset.sav’
 /BY postcode.
RECODE uplift56 uplift67 (SYSMIS = 0).
RENAME VARIABLES (postcode = L17) (uplift56 = L_UPLF56) (uplift67 = L_UPLF67).

VARIABLE LABELS L_UPLF56 "DV - 05/06 Widening participation uplift factor based on learners postcode"
 L_UPLF67 "DV - 06/07 Widening participation uplift factor based on learners postcode"

Creator	Analysis and MI Team
Date issued	25 September 2006
Date created	16 December 2005
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Last Modified: 26 Sep 06