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Reading SPSS file (.sav) containing survey data with metadata

Niklas
8 - Asteroid
‎08-09-2017 11:15 AM

Hi,

 

I have a .sav file that I want to perform some analysis on before outputting as .sav again and be able to use a survey analysis tool to continue my analysis on.

 

I currently have the problem that I lose a lot of my metadata when analysing the data in Alteryx. I'm able to recover the question title by using the description but I lose the full range of options for my categorical data. Is there any good ways to rebuild .sav files without loosing any of this data?

 

Thanks 

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andre347
10 - Fireball
‎08-10-2017 01:00 AM

Did you read this article? https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Knowledge-Base/SPSS-Output/ta-p/55453

 

It might help you with rebuilding the .sav file

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Niklas
8 - Asteroid
‎08-10-2017 09:28 AM

Hi Andre,

 

Yes I looked at that one and was able to use it to read in the full question title. However with the .sav file I have, the description field only contains the question, but not the table of values. When reading the processed file into Q (my survey analysis software) it still looses the associated values for the categories.

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