Hello Dr Jean-Francois! That is the default epidata export to SPSS . if you want to have access to the file in .sav format, please follow the procedure.

1. Launch your spss software. 2 Go to file menu ->Open-> Syntax. 3. In the syntax window, select all and click on run.

With this steps you can have you files in data file(i.e .sav) instead of the syntax file.

regards Mensah

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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca To: epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:14:13 +0000 Subject: [EpiData-list] export to spss Hi to All, I have a very simple question: when I am trying to export data to spss, the export menu transform the .rec files into .sps files, ie syntax and not .sav files, ie data files. Any idea why? Thanks for your help Best Regards Jean-Francois Dr Jean-Francois Trani Leonard Cheshire Disability and Inclusive Development Centre University College London 4 Taviton Street London WC1H 0BT

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