Format
SPSS PC File Format
Summary
- Name
- SPSS PC File Format
- Identifiers
- PUID: fmt/1869
- Format type
- Dataset
- Description
- SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) is a software package used for statistical analysis in the social sciences. The first version of SPSS was developed by SPSS Inc. in 1968. In 2009 SPSS Inc. was acquired by IBM. These files are generated by early versions of SPSS. Some later SPSS files are characterised in fmt/638. The files don't have a consistent extension, instead having sequential numbers, eg sample.1, sample.2, sample.3 etc.
- Note
- https://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp-dev/html_node/SPSS_002fPC_002b-System-File-Format.html#SPSS_002fPC_002b-System-File-Format https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPSS
- Source
- National Library of Australia / National Library of Australia
- Developed by
- IBM Corporation
- Supported by
- IBM Corporation
Relationships
- Is previous version of
Internal signatures
SPSS PC File format
- Note
- Absolute from beginning of file, magic bytes: data list free /{1-45}variable labels /{1-200}begin data EOF, offset 5:end data
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- 0
- Byte Sequence
64617461206C6973742066726565202F{1-45}7661726961626C65206C6162656C73202F{1-200}626567696E2064617461- Endianness
- None
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from EOF
- Offset
- 5
- Max offset
- 5
- Byte Sequence
656E642064617461- Endianness
- None
Changelog
-
Added in V114
- Release date
- 22 August 2023
SPSS PC File Format: Signature researched and samples provided by The National Library of Australia.
SPSS PC File Format: Full entry added. Submitted by The National Library of Australia.