You still don't know how to ask question, gal. Instead of putting your question/s up front, you are acting like: Mohi magne theki lukaune. From your post above, it seems you already know how to run Loglinear and get Chi-square value from the cross tab like this: LogLinear regression tool you can access using Menu-->Analyze-->loglinear. Chi-square test you can do by using Menu-->Analyze-->Description statistics-->Crosstabs. Select the variables for crosstab and click on "Statistics ..." then check "Chi-square". Now, are you seeking help in creating new variable (COMPUTE), or RECODE-ing the existing variable, or re-assigning (similar to RECODE) values as in IF (X>Y, e.g.)? FYI, there is a SPSS discussion group (comp.soft-sys.stat.spss) too. You can post your question there or view already posted questions and answers at http://groups.google.com/groups?group=comp.soft-sys.stat.spss. Good luck.