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I have pre and post measures of the same participants, divided over a Treatment condition and a control condition (no treatment). I have calculated the diff-in-diff by hand and want to know if this is significant.

Therefore, I want to perform a regression with a Treatment dummy (1= treatment, 0=no treatment), a Time dummy (1=post test, 0= prestest) and and the interaction between both. My dependent variable is a math test score.

I know how to create the Treatment dummy. My question is about the Time dummy: Every participant is measured pre and post, so I have 2 columns of math score data in my spss file. I would like to know how to create the Time dummy, as every participant is measured at both times (pre and post).

(I know how to create a dummy variable in spss, but I dont know what the Time dummy should look like).

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    $\begingroup$ At the moment this question is quite unclear to me. Could you explain a little more about your set-up? Are you asking for help with how to create dummies in your statistical software (which would be off-topic here) or just a conceptual question about what the dummies should look like when set up? $\endgroup$
    – Silverfish
    Aug 6, 2016 at 11:04
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    – Silverfish
    Aug 8, 2016 at 11:12
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    – Cinta
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    $\begingroup$ This question is now in the review queue so that people can see if it is sufficiently clear and on-topic. I think that it should be, now it's clear that it's the data format that is the issue rather than the specific software. $\endgroup$
    – Silverfish
    Aug 8, 2016 at 11:41

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I have no idea how you do this in SPSS but you need to have a single column for your outcome with two columns for your predictors: one for treatment and one for time. You would also need a column to identify the person so you can specify the repeated measures nature of your data-set. It way well be that SPSS would let you do the analysis with the data-set in the format that you have but you would need to ask on an SPSS-specific forum.

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