To apply any kind of quantitative analysis in SPSS, it is important to import the data into the SPSS software. We can import data files based on the mentioned type of data file we have into the SPSS software. All types of data files can be imported into SPSS, but the mentioned data files are the options given by SPSS software when we try to import the data:
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SPSS Statistics (sav)
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SPSS/PC+ (sys)
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Systat (syd, sys)
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Portable (por)
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Excel (xls, xlsx, xlsm)
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Lotus (w)
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Sylk (slk)
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dBase (dbf)
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SAS
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Stata
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After the data has been imported, we have data view and variable view sections, where we can give the label names for the data created.