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Comment: you have Open Office so you have Calc not Excel.basically you just need to Sort- select all your data in all your clomuns (except the 1st row)- click data- click sort- sort by box gets column G- click
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= How do I generate a random sample in EXCEL? =

Let us suppose we wish to randomly sample n cases of data comprising N people.

1. Put =RAND()*N in row 1 of the column adjacent to the right most data column in the spreadsheet

2. Copy and paste into remaining N-1 rows

3. Go to Data>sort on the EXCEL menu and make sure you sort in ascending order by the column you have just created. Click OK.

4. Delete rows n+1 to N.

We have randomly permuted the data rows so that the first, or any adjacent, n rows represent a random sample of size n.

There is also easy to use syntax to perform this in SPSS.
you have Open Office so you have Calc not Excel.basically you just need to Sort- select all your data in all your clomuns (except the 1st row)- click data- click sort- sort by box gets column G- click Ok and you are done. Was this answer helpful?
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you have Open Office so you have Calc not Excel.basically you just need to Sort- select all your data in all your clomuns (except the 1st row)- click data- click sort- sort by box gets column G- click Ok and you are done. Was this answer helpful?


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