Importing Excel Data (CSV) in SPSS Importing Data from a Dat. or Text File into SPSS.

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• Importing
Excel Data
(CSV) in SPSS
• Importing
Data from a
Dat. or Text
File into SPSS.
Dr. Raheem Bux Soomro
Associate Professor
Shah Abdul Latif
University
Pakistan
Data Analysis with
Statistics
Made Easy
SPSS
Training
session 06
(theory)

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• If you have gathered survey data online, chances
are your data are in an Excel sheet, rather than
SPSS.
• Follow the steps below to transfer your data into
SPSS.
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Open SPSS and go to File – Open – Data
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In the Open Data window, change the ‘Files of Type
drop-down’ to All Files(*.*)
Locate your Excel data file, click on it and click Open.
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• If the top row in your Excel data sheet contains the
variable names, keep the check box ‘Read variable
names from the first row of data’ checked.
• If the top row of your Excel sheet is raw data,
uncheck this box.
• Click OK.

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Variables
names from
first row.

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Importing Data from a Dat. or Text File into SPSS.
Follow the steps below to transfer your data into SPSS.

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18. You may watch an informative and practical
video on these topics by visiting following link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGPA0JQhGNQ&list=PLR-
G0fx7eecvxebU-dtXgWBQ3wu05Z0z-&index=8