Details: File format summary

Details for:

Go to: Summary | Documentation

| Signatures

| Compression

| Rights

Properties

Summary
Name	SPSS PC File Format
Version
Other names
Identifiers	PUID: fmt/1869
Family
Classification	Dataset
Disclosure
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.
Orientation
Byte order
Related file formats	Is previous version of SPSS Data File
Technical Environment
Released
Supported until
Format Risk
Developed by	IBM Corporation
Supported by	IBM Corporation
Source	National Library of Australia / National Library of Australia
Source date	24 May 2023
Source description
Last updated	24 May 2023
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