# Treating a column as categorical data

If a column can take only a few discrete values, treating it as a category column can assist with analysis. In the Summary view, category columns can be used to tabulate and filter data; in the Model view, each value of a category column will be given its own coefficient.

To treat a column as categories:

1. In the Summary view, select the column you wish to treat as categories
2. Choose Column > Treat Column Data As > Categories

See also:

- Assigning labels to the values of a category column
- Computing the quantiles of a numeric column
- About recode variables
- Treating an outcome variable as categorical data
- Treating an explanatory variable as categorical data

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