You use the Insert Bands dialog to insert one or more bands in an axis expression for a numeric variable. You open this dialog by choosing the Insert option on the menu at the top of the Banding tab in the Edit Variable dialog (see Edit Variable dialog), the New Variable dialog (see New Variable dialog), and Edit Axis dialog (see Edit Axis dialog).

Before you enter any details in the Insert Bands dialog, the From and To fields display the minimum and maximum values that can exist for the item. For example, in the Museum questionnaire, values allowed for the Number of Previous Visits question can be between 1 and 99. If you want to base your bands on actual minimum and maximum values collected from respondents, click the Get Min/Max from Case Data button to retrieve the values from the data source.

Defines the lowest value of the first band that will be inserted.

Defines the highest value of the highest band that will be inserted.

Defines the number of bands that are to be inserted.

Defines the number of decimal places specified for the expression.