1802 SPSS Portable Data Format Dataset 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. 1 Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives 21 Mar 2017 21 Mar 2017 fmt/997 PUID por File extension 1362 SPSS Portable 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. 1 Absolute from BOF 0 0 C1E2C3C9C940E2D7E2E240D7D6D9E340C6C9D3C540404040404040404040404040404040404040404153434949205350535320504F52542046494C4520202020202020202020202020202020202020200D0A30303030302D303030302D303030302D303030302D2D2D2D2D2D2D2D2D2D2D2D2D2D2D2D2D2D2D2D2133232929303330333330302F32343026292C2530303030303030303030303030303030303030300D0A303230303030322732323027262933303030233030303030303030303030303030303030