Export to SPSS

You can export your survey results into SPSS to perform advanced data analysis.

To export your survey results into SPSS select the report, click the Publish button from the right pane. You can also navigate to the SPSS Export option directly by clicking the Export to SPSS link from the right pane.

  1. Select the 'Export to SPSS' option.
  2. Setup export options:
    • Select the 'Export labels only' to export the report with labels only.
    • Select the 'Export values only' to export the report with values only.
    • Select the 'Export values and labels' to export the report with both values and labels.
    • Select the Export labels and values that toggle option to export to SPSS with the ability to toggle between values and labels.

    • Select the 'Default' option to use the default encoding while exporting your report to SPSS.
    • Select the 'Other' option to open a drop-down box for choosing the proper encoding, if your report contains data in any language other than English.
    • Select the Show Overall Respondent # option to show respodents' actual sequence numbers within the report. This option is commonly used if you filter responses but need to keep their original sequence numbers.
    • The Support multiple response sets option is used to create multiple response sets. more...
  3. Click Export To SPSS.
  4. When the dialog box pops up click Open to open the document in SPSS or click Save to save it in SPSS format (.sav) to your computer.

While exporting survey report to SPSS, the data will be arranged in the following way:

  1. Each response (respondent's answers to all survey questions) appears in one row.
  2. The sequence of columns will be as follows:
  3. The number of columns used for each question depends on the question type, number of answer choices, answer labels and values set.
    Accordance of questions and columns will be as follows:

Multiple Response Set
This feature is applicable for the Export labels and values that toggle option and is commonly used to create multiple response sets for the multi-choice types of questions such as Check All and List Box. In this case responses will be exported in the following way:

  • Values - 1 for selected response, 0 for thos that are not selected.
  • Labels - Yes for selected response, No for thos that are not selected.
Thus you can analyze data by means of SPSS and use multiple response sets.

Note

  • The successful export to SPSS requires SPSS version 16.0 or higher.
  • If your question contains 'Other' or 'Comment' field, a column is added to display text responses.
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