How do I use the SPSS syntax file?
Follow the instruction
below to use the SPSS syntax file.
- Save the ASCII-formatted data file
(.dat) and the SPSS syntax file (.sps) to your computer.
- Open the SPSS program.
- In the dialogue box “SPSS for
Windows” that opens at start-up of the program, select “Open another
type of file”. With the “More Files…” backlit, click OK at the bottom of
the box.
- Browse until you find the SPSS
syntax file (.sps) you saved to your computer.
- Select the syntax file and click
“Open”. The .sps file will open in the SPSS Syntax Editor window.
The program
will import the ASCII data file, create a SPSS data file, and apply the
formats and labels.
Please note:
The first line of code (DATA LIST FILE="C:\XXH2005_YRBS_Data.dat"/)
tells the program where to find the ASCII data file. If you saved the ASCII
data file to a drive other than your C drive, change the C (bolded in the
example line above) to indicate the appropriate drive. And, if you would
like the data file saved to a drive other than your C drive, the appropriate
drive will have to be indicated in the following two lines of code which
appear after the input statement:
SAVE OUTFILE='C:\XXH2005_YRBS_DATA.sav'
GET FILE='C:\XXH2005_YRBS_DATA.sav'.
- Select
“All” from the run menu – this will create a labeled and formatted SPSS
data set (.sav).
