Can SPSS treat a collection of Nominal Variables as one variable? -

i have lot of movie data imdb , i'm in middle of cleaning data , making 1 row = 1 movie database has multiple records single film.

i've restructured data single 'country' variable multiple cases single film, set of 29 country columns. single film may have 29 countries affiliated (most have 1 or 2).

i plan simple descriptive statistics , expected frequencies, perhaps correlations other variables genre etc.

is possible have spss treat 29 variables single variable? doesn't matter of country variables country present in, present in 1 of them. example might want find indian films, , ask spss check each row, whether 'india' in 1 of country variables , return row if present in of them.

is possible, or need manually instruct spss list of or commands whenever run query.

there 2 types of multiple response sets: multiple dichotomy, 29 yes/no variables describe, , multiple category, in have list of arbitrary categories. see mrsets command details.

once defined, ctables can statistical calculations on these, , these sets can used in graphics constructed in chart builder or ggraph commands.

don't confuse sets created mrsets older multiple response procedure, still available. mrsets definitions persist data , used ctables , ggraph only.

with function, andy said above, use individual variables, can use to. so, example, write

compute film7 = any(7, f1 f29)

if have mc variables. if using md structure, have check,say, variable f7 in example.