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Permanently Force a Numeric Attribute to Be Categorical

If you've imported any census microdata, you may have noticed that Census_Year is always treated as a categorical attribute. You can make any numeric attribute act the same way by assigning a category set to it (see Attributes with Category Sets).

1. In the Cases panel of the collection's inspector, click Show Details.

2. Select an attribute and choose Generate From Values from the Set pop-up menu.

If you don't like the order in which the categories appear in graphs and summary tables, you can Reorder Categories in a Category Set by dragging categories in a bar chart, or by editing the category set in the Categories panel of the inspector.


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