SPSS® 12.0 Command Syntax Reference

428 DATA LIST
Table 1 Interpretation of values in fixed and freefield format
Values
Example
Default
Fixed Freefield
Two defined
decimal places Default
Two defined
decimal places
2001 2001 20.01 2001.00 2001.00
201 201 2.01 201.00 201.00
–201 –201 –2.01 –201.00 –201.00
2 2 .02 2.00 2.00
20 20 .20 20.00 20.00
2.2 2.2 2.2 2.20 2.20
.201 .201 .201 .201 .201
2 01 Undefined Undefined Two values Two values
DATA LIST
/MODEL 1 RATE 2-6(PCT,2) COST 7-11(DOLLAR) READY 12-21(ADATE).
BEGIN DATA
1935 7878811-07-1988
2 16754654606-08-1989
3 17684783612-09-1989
END DATA.
• Data are inline and in fixed format (the default).
• Each variable is followed by its column location. After the column location, a columnstyle
format is specified in parentheses.
• MODEL begins in column 1, is one column wide, and receives the default numeric F
format.
• RATE begins in column 2 and ends in column 6. The PCT format is specified with two
decimal places. A comma is used to separate the format type from the number of decimal
places. Decimal points are not coded in the data. Thus, the program reads the rightmost
digits of each value as decimal digits. The value 935 for the first case in the data is interpreted
as 9.35. Note that it does not matter where numbers are entered within the column
width.
• COST begins in column 7 and ends in column 11. DOLLAR format is specified.
• READY begins in column 12 and ends in column 21. ADATE format is specified.
Example
DATA LIST FILE=DATA1
/MODEL (F1) RATE (PCT5.2) COST (DOLLAR5) READY (ADATE10).
• In this example, the FILE subcommand is used because the data are in an external file.
• The variable definition is the same as in the preceding example except that FORTRANlike
format specifications are used rather than column-style. Column locations are not
specified. Instead, the format specifications include a width for each format type.