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Dan Tobias: Add sample link from parent article to this one, since the files here are SAV format

2020-02-21T00:26:59Z

Add sample link from parent article to this one, since the files here are SAV format

Jsummers at 16:12, 18 August 2017

2017-08-18T16:12:34Z

Jsummers at 15:41, 6 August 2017

2017-08-06T15:41:47Z

Sam.alloing at 09:32, 8 March 2014

2014-03-08T09:32:06Z

Sam.alloing: PRONOM signature added

2014-03-08T09:31:41Z

PRONOM signature added

Dan Tobias: Make SPSS link go to page on that in this site (I've added the IBM link to that page)

2013-11-08T13:32:14Z

Make SPSS link go to page on that in this site (I've added the IBM link to that page)

Sam.alloing: Created page with "{{FormatInfo |formattype=electronic |subcat=Scientific Data formats |extensions={{ext|sav}} |mimetypes={{mimetype|application/x-spss-sav}} }} The SAV file format is the defaul..."

2013-11-08T13:21:53Z

Created page with "{{FormatInfo |formattype=electronic |subcat=Scientific Data formats |extensions={{ext|sav}} |mimetypes={{mimetype|application/x-spss-sav}} }} The SAV file format is the defaul..."

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{{FormatInfo
|formattype=electronic
|subcat=Scientific Data formats
|extensions={{ext|sav}}
|mimetypes={{mimetype|application/x-spss-sav}}
}}
The SAV file format is the default file format for [http://www.ibm.com/software/analytics/spss/ SPSS] statistical program. [http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/ PSPP] also uses the SAV file format as its default file format. PSPP is an open source alternative to SPSS and is maintained by GNU foundation.

== Format ==

The header of the binary format starts with $FL2 (24 46 4C 32). After that the product code starts with @(#), after a space (or in hex: 20) the version of SPSS is show. Some exaples of versions are: SPSS DATA FILE MS Windows 17.0.0, IBM SPSS STATISTICS DATA FILE MS Windows 19.0.1 or GNU pspp 0.1.4 - sparc-sun-solaris2.5.2. The version numbers have different forms, but the version number has a fixed length field of 55 bytes (it is filled up with hex value 20 till the 55 bytes is met). The total length is 60 bytes. The next section contains different kinds of information about the file for example number of data elements per case or compression.

The section that start with Y@ (hex: 59 40) is the creation date and time. It is 17 bytes long. If the date and time is not available it is set to 01 Jan 7000:00:00. The date is in dd mmm yy format and the time is in hh:mm:ss format. After this information only a user-defined file label is added and the remaining part is filed with padding.

== References ==
* [https://www.pcpitstop.com/fileextension/extension/SPSS~Data~Document/sav.html Open file extension sav: SPSS Data Document ]
* [http://filext.com/file-extension/SAV Notes about the SAV file extension]
* [http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp-dev/html_node/System-File-Format.html#System-File-Format System File Format (PSPP)]
* [http://pspp.benpfaff.org/conversion.html Conversion service for SPSS sav and sys files to plain text (with source)]

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	The section that start with Y@ (hex: 59 40) is the creation date and time. It is 17 bytes long. If the date and time is not available it is set to 01 Jan 7000:00:00. The date is in dd mmm yy format and the time is in hh:mm:ss format. After this information only a user-defined file label is added and the remaining part is filed with padding.		The section that start with Y@ (hex: 59 40) is the creation date and time. It is 17 bytes long. If the date and time is not available it is set to 01 Jan 7000:00:00. The date is in dd mmm yy format and the time is in hh:mm:ss format. After this information only a user-defined file label is added and the remaining part is filed with padding.
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		+	== Sample Files ==
		+	* [http://webpages.math.luc.edu/~mgb/courses/s335/WitmerData/DATA_Ver3/DataFiles/Chpt%2013/SPSS/ Sample SAV files]

	== References ==		== References ==

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-:''For saved game formats, see [[Saved Games]].''
+::''This article is about the statistical format. For the Game Boy format, see [[GB]]. For saved game formats, see [[Saved Games]].''
 The '''SAV''' file format is the default file format for the [[SPSS]] statistical program. [http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/ PSPP] also uses the SAV file format as its default file format. PSPP is an open source alternative to SPSS and is maintained by GNU foundation.

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-The '''[[SAV]]''' file format is the default file format for the [[SPSS]] statistical program. [http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/ PSPP] also uses the SAV file format as its default file format. PSPP is an open source alternative to SPSS and is maintained by GNU foundation.
+:''For saved game formats, see [[Saved Games]].''
 == Format ==

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-The SAV file format is the default file format for [http://www.ibm.com/software/analytics/spss/ SPSS] statistical program. [http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/ PSPP] also uses the SAV file format as its default file format. PSPP is an open source alternative to SPSS and is maintained by GNU foundation.
+The '''[[SAV]]''' file format is the default file format for the [[SPSS]] statistical program. [http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/ PSPP] also uses the SAV file format as its default file format. PSPP is an open source alternative to SPSS and is maintained by GNU foundation.
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 * [http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp-dev/html_node/System-File-Format.html#System-File-Format System File Format (PSPP)]
 * [http://pspp.benpfaff.org/conversion.html Conversion service for SPSS sav and sys files to plain text (with source)]