To start this off I just want you to know I have no idea anything about coding anything. Somehow this project landed in my lap and I am desperate for help so PLEASE.
I have a data set and I need to combine datapoints... so basically I have a variable labeled "WHY" and the reasons are coded as numbers (I.e. 100, 200, 210, 220, 300, 310 etc). I want to combine reasons that are similar so I want to combine the data points that are all 200's, 210's, 220's into one category and then all the 100's are another category and all the 300's are a third category. This way instead of having 40 different reasons coded I have like 5 different broader categories coded. To clarify, if I had categories for Yorkies, Golden Retrievers, German Shepard but I wanted to combine all of those categories into one and call it "dogs"... also these datapoints are all in the same column.
I have searched many different codes for combining but they all seem to just combine like columns or rows are datapoints that are the same. Since I want to combine data points that are different it is much harder to find.
If anyone has any insight at all I will be eternally grateful. Also if anyone really wants to help me out pm me and maybe we can set something up.
Thanks in advance!