How to Save Existing Text Categorization to Use in Other Analyses

Cristin McCurdy

This article describes how to save the categories assigned to your coded text data so that you can use them in other analyses.

Requirements

You will need a categorized variable that was created during the automatic categorization of unstructured text.

Below, you will find examples of automatically categorized text.

Select categorized output (examples shown above) on the Page.
From the object inspector, go to Inputs > SAVE VARIABLE(S) > Save categories.
A new variable will appear in your Data Sets tree that contains the categorized responses.