[StATS]: Importing value labels from Access into SPSS (May 24, 2005).
Someone asked about importing data from Access into SPSS. The Access file has value labels (e.g., 1=Male, 2=Female, 3=Missing) and wanted to know if there was any<U+FFFD> way to get this information into SPSS.
You cannot easily import value labels into SPSS, as far as I know. One workaround is to use a join in Access to link the table that has the number codes to the table that has the labels. Then export that join into SPSS. You will get a column of data with the number codes and a second column of data with the value labels.
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