Last week at SxSW Scott and I agreed not to post boring “feature release” blog posts anymore. But I’m going to turn right around and make an exception in this case, because exporting to SPSS is a long-awaited feature for many of our research users.
For those of you not familiar with SPSS, it is a very popular (or at least widely used) statistical analysis package that researchers and analytical marketers use to crunch up survey data into meaningful stats.
So, without further ado: I am happy to announce that you can now export SurveyGizmo data into SPSS. Not just in a limited fashion, but complete with variable labels and named values (which makes data cleanup far, far easier).
The export option is available under “Reports” for any survey. This feature is available for our Enterprise clients.
Happy surveying!
Tags: SPSS export
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I think I’m going to like this aspect for surveys.
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I hope so Lola! If you can think of anything that will make the SPSS export easier please let me know in the forums. SPSS is a very powerful tool — and we want to make exporting as easy as possible!
-Christian
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Can you export the SPSS using a different delimiter, such as pipe-delimited, rather than comma? Anytime there is a comma in a comment question, it throws off the exported data into multiple variable columns. Made the data totally unusable after my first comment field.
As an alternative, maybe you could allow users to choose what type of values they want downloaded (in Excel) as an option – numeric values or the Value Labels only?
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I don’t find the SPSS export option. Where it it?
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gatorlog,
That option is in the right column of the reports screen. It’s called Export to PAWS/SPSS. (Right under the CSV export).
It’s only available for student accounts and Enterprise/Dedicated accounts — otherwise it might not appear at all (in the next version things like that appear, but grayed out — so you don’t have to spend hours looking for something).
Cheers,
-Christian
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Christian,
You mentioned Spss export option is available for student accounts, too. But it doesn’t appear in my reports screen. Is it still valid?
Thanks,
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Hi Selen,
It sounds like your account hasn’t been upgraded to the full Enterprise level Student account yet. What I would suggest is putting a ticket into our support team and having them look into it for you. Just click on the Help/Support tab and submit a ticket.
Cheers!
Brittany
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When I export my data into SPSS it’s giving me a huge amount of seemingly meaningless numbers. How can I get the exported data to make sense? Would be great to get a setup tip sheet of some sort… My last survey took hours to copy and paste from a csv file into my SPSS.
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Hi Justin,
Your best bet would be to ask our support team and they’ll be able to look into the numbers that are being put out for you. We want the SPSS export to help you so you don’t have to copy and paste everything from you CSV file.
Cheers!
Brittany