Date:         Tue, 14 Jun 2005 17:08:34 -0400
Reply-To:     Scott Czepiel <sczepiel@gmail.com>
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From:         Scott Czepiel <sczepiel@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: How to extract value labels from spss sav data file
Comments: To: "H.Ma" <huaqiangm@gmail.com>
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I have struggled with this in the past, and in the end found that conversion 
utilities were the way to go (but this presumes you have access to the 
system that created the sav files in the first place).

You have the option of linking to an SPSS Inc. provided Windows dll, seach 
for "SPSS Developer's Guide" on support.spss.com <http://support.spss.com>.

You can also try reverse-engineering the new file format, if you can find 
it. The one I started with is available here at the link below. But this is 
an old document and will probably not hold up for recent files.

http://www.wotsit.org/download.asp?f=spssdata

You may also have some luck with this link:

http://www.psych.yorku.ca/lab/sas/spss2sas.htm

Best,
sc

On 6/14/05, H.Ma <http://H.Ma> <huaqiangm@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a spss data (.sav) file and want to extract value labels from
> it. Does anybody know how to do it in an easier way?
> 
> Thanks a lot.
> 
> Richard
>