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SPSS export response max out

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7:49
March 24, 2008

AdamStanford

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Hi,

I just tried to download the SPSS syntax for my survey (6400 respondents) and did not get a complete file - the syntax ended around 5600 respondents or so, and, along with missing a few hundred responses did not have the variable label information (the bit below “END DATA”).

There don’t appear to be any facilities to filter SPSS exports to reduce the file size and download in several sections, then merge in SPSS. Any kind of filter here would be an easy work around.

Survey name: Travellers’ Pulse

This issue is different from the 80 column max out (which is solved in another post on this forum).

Many thanks,

Adam

10:14
March 25, 2008

Christian Vanek

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Cambridge, MA

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Adam,

This has happened to me a few times too. The data is there, but the SYNTAX Editor in SPSS has a character limit. (I can’t tell you how long it took me to figure this out…)

The trick is to download the file to your desktop. Then use another Text Editor to separate the data from the variable & label SYNTAX (I assume you do this already to get around the 80 column limit, if not I can provide instructions).

Then you can open the syntax file in SPSS and run it. It will import all your data because it’s reading it from a separate text file.

I have started writing a direct SurveyGizmo to SPSS SAV file exporter. I’ll hurry — a lot of folks are using our two software packages together.

I like SPSS, but I have to say their file formats are… “interesting”.

Cheers,

-Christian

10:25
June 26, 2008

Igor

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I’d like to inform you there is a new library to native export to SPSS format - SPSS XPorter version 1.6

Features
* can export data to any SPSS versions (since v10)
* allows to use UTF-8 to painless export any texts
* allows to use all the main SPSS variable types (Unlike pmStation, wich does not support date variables)
* supports long variable names, labels and values
* uses data compression
* is highly optimized for speed (up to 10 times)
* is designed for minimal memory usage
* adds missing values to variable
* uses defined value labels for variable’s value (both numeric, so does string)
* supports line by line mode (as pmStation library) and batch mode
* is developed for easily moving from old and non-stabile pmStation library. (There is an adapter class, using it helps you not to rewrite the code)
* is developed with using non-blocking multithreaded architecture
* supports progress listener
* can be configured on-the-fly

Supported variable types

* NUMERIC;
* COMMA;
* DOT;
* DOLLAR;
* STRING;
* DATE (different formats).

If you are interested in it, do not hesitate to contact me at nikonoff@mail.com

12:16
June 27, 2008

cheri

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