SPSS Variable Name

SPSS is an analytics software tool used by marketers and researchers around the world. Most top research agencies use SPSS to analyze survey data and mine text data to get the most out of their research projects.

SPSS variable names are not required, QuestionPro will auto generate the variables name. This will make your life so much easier when you jump in to do your analysis. However, if you want to define the variable names, you can use the question codes as the variable names in the export. To use question codes as variable names in SPSS

Go to: Login » Surveys (select a survey) » Analytics » Manage Data

Under Manage Data, select Export option.

Turn on the display question code in varibale name toggle.

SPSS variable name has following limitations:
• SPSS Variable names cannot start with numbers
• SPSS Variable names cannot include special characters
• Duplicate variable names are also not permitted in SPSS
• For older versions of SPSS (pre 12.0) there is a character limit of 8
• Variable names cannot end with an underscore or a period
• Variable names with reserved words are not allowed

When the user click on download, a pop up will open listing all the errors. User must fix these errors to proceed to download the SPSS file.

Any changes made to question code in the SPSS variable name pop-up will be applicable to SPSS variable name and question codes globally will not be effected.

Here the question code will appear in the variable name column in the SPSS file.