Format
SPSS Portable Data Format
Summary
- Name
- SPSS Portable Data Format
- Identifiers
- PUID: fmt/997
- Format type
- Dataset
- Description
- SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) is a software package used for statistical analysis in the social sciences. The portable data format is designed for data transfer between differing operating systems and versions of SPSS.
- File extensions
-
por - Source
- Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
- Developed by
- IBM Corporation
- Supported by
- IBM Corporation
Internal signatures
SPSS Portable
- Note
- From the format description (http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp-dev/html_node/Portable-File-Header.html): "The first 200-byte segment is divided into five 40-byte sections, each of which represents the string charset SPSS PORT FILE in a different character set encoding, where charset is the name of the character set used in the file, e.g. ASCII or EBCDIC. Each string is padded on the right with spaces in its respective character set." The order is: EBCDIC, 7-bit ASCII, CDC 6-bit ASCII, 6-bit ASCII, Honeywell 6-bit ASCII.
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- 0
- Byte Sequence
C1E2C3C9C940E2D7E2E240D7D6D9E340C6C9D3C540404040404040404040404040404040404040404153434949205350535320504F52542046494C4520202020202020202020202020202020202020200D0A30303030302D303030302D303030302D303030302D2D2D2D2D2D2D2D2D2D2D2D2D2D2D2D2D2D2D2D2133232929303330333330302F32343026292C2530303030303030303030303030303030303030300D0A303230303030322732323027262933303030233030303030303030303030303030303030- Endianness
- None
Changelog
-
Added in V90
- Release date
- 30 March 2017
SPSS Portable Data Format: Signature developed through PRONOM Research. Requested by National Digital Library of Finland.
SPSS Portable Data Format: Full entry added. Submitted by National Digital Library of Finland.