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SPSS Data Types

SPSS exposes numeric and string data types.

Certain specialized forms of data are handled by formats that impact visualization and export, not storage. The primary example of this is date and time data.

Contents

  1. SPSS Data Types
    1. Numeric Data
      1. Date and Time Formats
    2. String Data

Numeric Data

Numeric data is stored as double-precision floating point.

Data formats adjust the visualized/exported representation of a data point, often only truncating the value. Adjusting these data formats does not destroy precision.

Given the literal value 123.45...

General Format

Format

Representation

Fw

F8

123

Fw.d

F8.1

123.4

Nw

N8

00000123

Nw.d

N8.1

000123.4

Date and Time Formats

Format

Representation

DATETIME20

dd-MMM-yyyy hh:mm:ss

DATETIME17

dd-MMM-yyyy hh:mm

DATE11

dd-MMM-yyyy

DATE9

dd-MMM-yy

TIME8

hh:mm:ss

TIME5

hh:mm

ADATE10

mm/dd/yyyy

Note that MMM appears as JAN, not 001.

String Data

String data is stored at a fixed length. This length is defined and adjusted through the format; Aw where w is the width.

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