SPSS® 12.0 Command Syntax Reference

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EMPTY Fill characters used when a count or percentage is zero. ZERO (the default)
displays a 0 using the format for the cell statistic. BLANK leaves the statistic
blank. You can also specify a quoted character string. If the string is too wide
for the cell, the text is truncated.
If FORMAT EMPTY=BLANK, there will be no visible difference between cells
that have a count of 0 and cells for which no statistics are defined.
MISSING Fill characters used when a cell statistic cannot be computed. This specification
applies to non-empty cells for which a statistic, such as standard deviation,
cannot be computed. The default is a period (.). You can specify a
quoted string. If the string is too wide for the cell, the text is truncated.
VLABELS Subcommand
/VLABELS VARIABLES= varlist
DISPLAY= {DEFAULT}
{NAME }
{LABEL }
{BOTH }
{NONE }
By default, the display of variable labels is controlled by the TVARS specification on the SET
command in the SPSS Base system. The VLABELS subcommand allows you to show a name,
label, or both for each table variable. The minimum specification is a variable list and a
DISPLAY specification. To give different specifications for different variables, use multiple
VLABELS subcommands.
VARIABLES The variables to which the subcommand applies. You can use ALL or
VARNAME TO VARNAME, which refers to the order of variables in the current
active data file. If a specified variable does not appear in a table, VLABELS is
ignored for that variable.
DISPLAY Whether the variable’s name, label, both, or neither is shown in the table.
DEFAULT honors the SET TVARS setting. NAME shows the variable name
only. LABEL shows the variable label only. BOTH shows the variable name
and label. NONE hides the name and label.
SMISSING Subcommand
/SMISSING {VARIABLE}
{LISTWISE}
If more than one scale variable is included in a table, you can control whether cases that are
missing on one are included in summaries for which they have valid values.
VARIABLE Exclude cases variable by variable. A case is included in summaries for each
scale variable for which it has a valid value regardless of whether it has missing
values for other scale variables in the table.