You want to do a separate analysis for each of the following three groups and only for these three groups: persons with just 8 years of schooling, persons with just 12 years of schooling, and persons with just 16 years of schooling. What should you do?
A) set Select Cases to "SCHOOLING = 8 or SCHOOLING = 12 or SCHOOLING = 16"
B) set Select Cases to "SCHOOLING = 8 or SCHOOLING = 12 or SCHOOLING = 16" and put SCHOOLING into the Groups list on Split File
C) put SCHOOLING into the Groups list on Split File
D) Compute a new variable whose numeric expression is "SCHOOLING = 8 or SCHOOLING = 12 or SCHOOLING = 16"

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Setting Select Cases to "SCHOOLING = 8 or SCHOOLING = 12 or SCHOOLING = 16" will ensure that only the three groups of interest are included in the analysis. However, this alone will not split the file by these groups. We also need to specify that we want to split the file by the variable SCHOOLING using the Split File function. This will ensure that separate analyses are done for each of the three groups. Option A does not include the Split File function, while option C only includes the Split File function without specifying the groups. Option D suggests creating a new variable, which is unnecessary given that the SCHOOLING variable already contains the necessary grouping information.

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