SPSS Tutorial

This functionality requires an experimental spss plugin. Read More

Frictionless supports reading and writing SPSS files.

CLI

pip install frictionless[spss]

pip install 'frictionless[spss]' # for zsh shell

Reading Data

You can read SPSS files:

Python

from pprint import pprint

from frictionless import Resource

resource = Resource('data/table.sav')

pprint(resource.read_rows())

Writing Data

[NOTE] Timezone information is ignored for datetime and time types.

You can write SPSS files:

Python

from frictionless import Resource

source = Resource(data=[['id', 'name'], [1, 'english'], [2, 'german']])

target = source.write('table.sav')

pprint(target)

pprint(target.read_rows())

Configuring Data

There are no options available in SpssDialect.

References:

• SPSS Dialect