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Variable definitions when reading from a .sav file
This topic describes how the SPSS Statistics SAV DSC maps IBM SPSS Statistics variable types to UNICOM Intelligence Metadata Model (MDM) variable types when reading a .sav file.
When accessing the case data with an MDM document, the data type of the corresponding MDM variable generally determines the data type of the IBM SPSS Statistics variable. For more information, see Reading from an SPSS Statistics .sav file.
See also
IBM SPSS Statistics numeric variables
IBM SPSS Statistics string variables
IBM SPSS Statistics date variables
IBM SPSS Statistics multiple response sets
Category values
Determining categorical variables
Determining categories
Handling unlabeled categorical values
Read performance
Reading from an SPSS Statistics .sav file