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Overview All SPSS Commands

The table below lists all SPSS commands and the additional licenses -if any- you need for using them.

This overview is based on SPSS version 22 but we hope to soon update it for version 24.

Consult the notes section for some tips on using the table or downloading it as an SPSS (.sav) data file.

Overview

Name	Type	Option	Introduced	Notes
2SLS	Procedure	Regression	SPSS version 14
ACF	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
ADD DOCUMENT	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Obsolete. Use DOCUMENT instead.
ADD FILES	Transformation	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
ADD VALUE LABELS	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Add or edit value labels.
ADP	Procedure	Data Preparation	SPSS version 18
AGGREGATE	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Create dataset with summary statistics over cases.
AIM	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 14
ALSCAL	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
ALTER TYPE	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 16	Convert string variables to numeric variables to or reversely.
ANACOR	Procedure	Categories	SPSS version 12 or lower
ANOVA	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
APPLY DICTIONARY	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Copy dictionary properties between files or variables.
AREG	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
ARIMA	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
AUTORECODE	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Convert string variable into numeric variable with value labels.
BEGIN DATA-END DATA	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
BEGIN GPL-END GPL	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 14
BEGIN PROGRAM-END PROGRAM	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 14	Indicates start of Python or R program block.
BOOTSTRAP	Transformation	Bootstrapping	SPSS version 18
BREAK	Transformation	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
CACHE	Transformation	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
CASEPLOT	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
CASESTOVARS	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Restructure data: convert cases to variables.
CATPCA	Procedure	Categories	SPSS version 12 or lower
CATREG	Procedure	Categories	SPSS version 12 or lower
CCF	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
CD	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 13	Set default directory. Affects all commands (including GET, SAVE, INSERT and SET CTEMPLATE) except SET TLOOK.
CLEAR TIME PROGRAM	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 16
CLEAR TRANSFORMATIONS	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
CLUSTER	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Hierarchical cluster analysis, often used in market segmentation.
CODEBOOK	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 17	Similar to DISPLAY DICTIONARY.
COMMENT	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Obsolete. Use an asterisk (*) for comments in syntax.
COMPARE DATASETS	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 21
COMPUTE	Transformation	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
CONJOINT	Procedure	Conjoint	SPSS version 12 or lower
CORRELATIONS	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Only Pearson correlations. Use NONPAR CORR for Spearman/Kendall correlations.
CORRESPONDENCE	Procedure	Categories	SPSS version 12 or lower
COUNT	Transformation	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	For counting missing values over variables, use NMISS.
COXREG	Procedure	Advanced Statistics	SPSS version 12 or lower
CREATE	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Creates lag/lead series, cumulative sums and more.
CROSSTABS	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
CSCOXREG	Procedure	Complex Samples	SPSS version 16
CSDESCRIPTIVES	Procedure	Complex Samples	SPSS version 12 or lower
CSGLM	Procedure	Complex Samples	SPSS version 13
CSLOGISTIC	Procedure	Complex Samples	SPSS version 13
CSORDINAL	Procedure	Complex Samples	SPSS version 15
CSPLAN	Other	Complex Samples	SPSS version 12 or lower
CSSELECT	Procedure	Complex Samples	SPSS version 12 or lower
CSTABULATE	Procedure	Complex Samples	SPSS version 12 or lower
CTABLES	Procedure	Custom Tables	SPSS version 12 or lower
CURVEFIT	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
DATA LIST	Transformation	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
DATAFILE ATTRIBUTE	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 14
DATASET ACTIVATE	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 14	Choose which dataset is addressed by subsequent commands.
DATASET CLOSE	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 14	Close dataset (without saving).
DATASET COPY	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 14
DATASET DECLARE	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 14
DATASET DISPLAY	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 14
DATASET NAME	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 14	Assign name to dataset by which it can be addressed. Allows working on multiple datasets simultaneously.
DATE	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
DEFINE-!ENDDEFINE	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Define macro. Mostly deprecated since Python was introduced in SPSS version 14.
DELETE VARIABLES	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Permanently delete one or more variables.
DESCRIPTIVES	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Descriptive statistics over all cases. Also fastest way to create z-scores.
DETECTANOMALY	Procedure	Data Preparation	SPSS version 14
DISCRIMINANT	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
DISPLAY	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Display parts of dictionary. Use SHOW for displaying settings.
DMCLUSTER	Procedure	Direct Marketing	SPSS version 18
DMLOGISTIC	Procedure	Direct Marketing	SPSS version 18
DMROC	Procedure	Direct Marketing	SPSS version 18
DMTABLES	Procedure	Direct Marketing	SPSS version 18
DMTREE	Procedure	Direct Marketing	SPSS version 18
DO IF	Transformation	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Only acts upon transformations.
DO REPEAT	Transformation	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Only acts upon transformations.
DOCUMENT	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	A DOCUMENT is a data file description that is saved as part of the dictionary.
DROP DOCUMENTS	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	See DOCUMENT.
ECHO	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
END CASE	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Often used with INPUT PROGRAM and LOOP.
END FILE	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Often used with INPUT PROGRAM and LOOP.
ERASE	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Delete one or more external files. Use carefully.
EXAMINE	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
EXECUTE	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Does nothing except run pending transformations.
EXPORT	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
EXSMOOTH	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
EXTENSION	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 16
FACTOR	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Exploratory factor analysis (including PCA).
FILE HANDLE	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
FILE LABEL	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
FILE TYPE-END FILE TYPE	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
FILTER	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Exclude selection of cases from procedures.
FINISH	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
FIT	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
FLIP	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Transposes the active dataset.
FORMATS	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Set formats for (mostly) numeric variables..
FREQUENCIES	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Fastest option for running histograms and bar charts.
GENLIN	Procedure	Advanced Statistics	SPSS version 15
GENLINMIXED	Procedure	Advanced Statistics	SPSS version 19	command syntax reference classifies command as "Advanced Models" instead of "Advanced Statistics".
GENLOG	Procedure	Advanced Statistics	SPSS version 12 or lower
GET	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Open SPSS data file.
GET CAPTURE	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Deprecated. Use GET DATA instead.
GET DATA	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Open non SPSS data file (including Excel).
GET SAS	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
GET STATA	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 14
GET TRANSLATE	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
GETCOGNOS	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 21
GGRAPH	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 14
GLM	Procedure	Advanced Statistics	SPSS version 12 or lower	General Linear Model.
GLM: Multivariate	Procedure	Advanced Statistics	SPSS version 12 or lower
GLM: Repeated Measures	Procedure	Advanced Statistics	SPSS version 12 or lower	Used for repeated measures ANOVA.
GLM: Univariate	Procedure	Advanced Statistics	SPSS version 12 or lower
GRAPH	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
HILOGLINEAR	Procedure	Advanced Statistics	SPSS version 12 or lower
HOMALS	Procedure	Categories	SPSS version 12 or lower
HOST	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 13
IF	Transformation	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Conditional COMPUTE command.
IGRAPH	Procedure	Statistics Base	Don't use	Deprecated since version 18. Will be removed from SPSS.
IMPORT	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
INCLUDE	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Run external syntax file. Deprecated as predecessor of INSERT.
INFO	Other	Statistics Base	Don't use	Obsolete and no longer supported
INPUT PROGRAM	Transformation	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Simulate large/complex data. Often used with LOOP.
INSERT	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 13	Run external syntax file. Successor of (now deprecated INCLUDE).
KEYED DATA LIST	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
KM	Procedure	Advanced Statistics	SPSS version 12 or lower
KNN	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 17
LEAVE	Transformation	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
LINEAR	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 19
LIST	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
LOGISTIC REGRESSION	Procedure	Regression	SPSS version 12 or lower
LOGLINEAR	Procedure	Advanced Statistics	SPSS version 12 or lower	Only available in syntax.
LOOP	Transformation	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Acts only on transformations.
MANOVA	Procedure	Advanced Statistics	SPSS version 12 or lower	Only available in syntax.
MANOVA: Multivariate	Procedure	Advanced Statistics	SPSS version 12 or lower
MANOVA: Repeated Measures	Procedure	Advanced Statistics	SPSS version 12 or lower
MANOVA: Univariate	Procedure	Advanced Statistics	SPSS version 12 or lower
MAPS	Procedure	Statistics Base	Don't use	Removed from SPSS and command syntax reference
MATCH FILES	Transformation	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Merge files with similar cases, different variables.
MATRIX DATA	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
MATRIX-END MATRIX	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
MCONVERT	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
MEANS	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
MISSING VALUES	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Specify missing values for one or many variables.
MIXED	Procedure	Advanced Statistics	SPSS version 12 or lower
MLP	Procedure	Neural Networks	SPSS version 16
MODEL CLOSE	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 13
MODEL HANDLE	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 13
MODEL LIST	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 13
MODEL NAME	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
MRSETS	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
MULT RESPONSE	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
MULTIPLE CORRESPONDENCE	Procedure	Categories	SPSS version 13
MULTIPLE IMPUTATION	Procedure	Missing Values	SPSS version 17
MVA	Procedure	Missing Values	SPSS version 12 or lower
N OF CASES	Transformation	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Obsolete. Use SELECT IF with $casenum instead.
NAIVEBAYES	Procedure	IBM SPSS Statistics Server	SPSS version 14	Couldn't find this option on IBM website.
NEW FILE	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
NLR	Procedure	Regression	SPSS version 12 or lower
NOMREG	Procedure	Regression	SPSS version 12 or lower
NONPAR CORR	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Spearman and Kendall correlations.
NPAR TESTS	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Non parametric significance tests.
NPTESTS	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 18	Non parametric significance tests.
NUMERIC	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Numeric counterpart of STRING. Rarely (if ever) needed.
OLAP CUBES	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
OMS	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Start monitoring, capturing or suppressing selected output.
OMSEND	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Stop monitoring/capturing/suppressing selected output and show/save captured output if any.
OMSINFO	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
OMSLOG	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
ONEWAY	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	One-way ANOVA.
OPTIMAL BINNING	Procedure	Data Preparation	SPSS version 15
ORTHOPLAN	Other	Conjoint	SPSS version 12 or lower
OUTPUT ACTIVATE	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 15	Choose output window to which subsequent output should be appended.
OUTPUT CLOSE	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 15	Close output window (without saving).
OUTPUT DISPLAY	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 15
OUTPUT EXPORT	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 17
OUTPUT MODIFY	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 22	Modifies output items such as tables.
OUTPUT NAME	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 15	Assign name to output window by which it can be addressed. Allows using multiple output windows simultaneously.
OUTPUT NEW	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 15
OUTPUT OPEN	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 15
OUTPUT SAVE	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 15
OVERALS	Procedure	Categories	SPSS version 12 or lower
PACF	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
PARTIAL CORR	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
PERMISSIONS	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Set file permissions (read-only).
PLANCARDS	Procedure	Conjoint	SPSS version 12 or lower
PLS	Procedure	PLS Extension Command (free)	SPSS version 16	Requires SPSS Python Essentials
PLUM	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
POINT	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
PPLOT	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
PREDICT	Transformation	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
PREFSCAL	Procedure	Categories	SPSS version 14
PRESERVE	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Remember current settings. Enables to RESTORE them later.
PRINCALS	Procedure	Categories	SPSS version 12 or lower
PRINT	Transformation	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
PRINT EJECT	Transformation	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
PRINT FORMATS	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
PRINT SPACE	Transformation	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
PROBIT	Procedure	Regression	SPSS version 12 or lower
PROCEDURE OUTPUT	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
PROXIMITIES	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
PROXSCAL	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
QUICK CLUSTER	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	K-Means Cluster Analysis, often used for market segmentation.
RANK	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
RATIO STATISTICS	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
RBF	Procedure	Neural Networks	SPSS version 16
READ MODEL	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
RECODE	Transformation	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
RECORD TYPE	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
REFORMAT	Other	Statistics Base	Don't use	Command no longer supported.
REGRESSION	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
RELIABILITY	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
RENAME VARIABLES	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Change variable names.
REPEATING DATA	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
REPORT	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
REPOSITORY ATTRIBUTES	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 16	Command name used to be PER ATTRIBUTES until SPSS version 18.
REPOSITORY CONNECT	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 15	Command name used to be PER CONNECT until SPSS version 18.
REPOSITORY COPY	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 16	Command name used to be PER COPY until SPSS version 18.
REREAD	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
RESPONSE RATE	Procedure	Direct Marketing	SPSS version 18
RESTORE	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Used with PRESERVE.
RMV	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
ROC	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
SAMPLE	Transformation	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
SAVE	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Save data as SPSS data (.sav) file.
SAVE DATA COLLECTION	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 15	Command name used to be SAVE DIMENSIONS until SPSS version 18. Only available on Windows OS.
SAVE MODEL	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
SAVE TRANSLATE	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Save data as non SPSS file (including Excel).
SCRIPT	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Deprecated since Python was introduced in SPSS version 14.
SEASON	Procedure	Forecasting	SPSS version 12 or lower
SELECT IF	Transformation	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Can be used with LOOP, DO REPEAT, TEMPORARY and DO IF.
SELECTPRED	Procedure	Statistics Server	SPSS version 14
SET	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Edit one or more settings except CD. Use SHOW for displaying settings.
SHIFT VALUES	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 17
SHOW	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Show one or more settings. Use SET for editing settings. Use DISPLAY for showing dictionary information.
SIMPLAN	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 21
SIMPREP BEGIN-SIMPREP END	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 21
SIMRUN	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 21
SORT CASES	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
SORT VARIABLES	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 16	Does not read data if no transformations are pending
SPCHART	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
SPECTRA	Procedure	Forecasting	SPSS version 12 or lower
SPLIT FILE	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Have procedures process groups of cases separately.
STAR JOIN	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 21
STRING	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Create new string variable before setting its values with COMPUTE, IF or other command.
SUBTITLE	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
SUMMARIZE	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
SURVIVAL	Procedure	Advanced Statistics	SPSS version 12 or lower
SYSFILE INFO	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Display dictionary information from external SPSS data file.
T-TEST	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
TABLES	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Not mentioned in command syntax reference. Some help available via F1 shortkey.
TDISPLAY	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
TEMPORARY	Transformation	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
TIME PROGRAM	Transformation	Statistics Base	SPSS version 14
TITLE	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
TMS BEGIN	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 15
TMS END	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 15
TMS IMPORT	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 18
TMS MERGE	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 15
TREE	Procedure	Decision Trees	SPSS version 13
TSAPPLY	Procedure	Forecasting	SPSS version 14
TSET	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
TSHOW	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
TSMODEL	Procedure	Forecasting	SPSS version 14
TSPLOT	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
TWOSTEP CLUSTER	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
UNIANOVA	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Use GLM for repeated measures ANOVA.
UPDATE	Transformation	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
USE	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
VALIDATEDATA	Procedure	Data Preparation	SPSS version 14
VALUE LABELS	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Erase all value labels from one or more variables and/or specify new ones. For editing value labels, ADD VALUE LABELS is usually a better option.
VARCOMP	Procedure	Advanced Statistics	SPSS version 12 or lower
VARIABLE ALIGNMENT	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
VARIABLE ATTRIBUTE	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 14
VARIABLE LABELS	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Add or edit description of variables.
VARIABLE LEVEL	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Sets measurement levels for variables.
VARIABLE ROLE	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 18
VARIABLE WIDTH	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Set display width (columns in variable view) for variable(s).
VARSTOCASES	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Restructure data: convert variables to cases.
VECTOR	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Allow variables to be addressed by index. Mainly used with LOOP.
VERIFY	Procedure	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
WEIGHT	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Assign weights to cases.
WLS	Procedure	Regression	SPSS version 12 or lower
WRITE	Transformation	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower	File is written after running subsequent procedure, possibly EXECUTE.
WRITE FORMATS	Other	Statistics Base	SPSS version 12 or lower
XGRAPH	Procedure	Statistics base	SPSS version 13
XSAVE	Transformation	Statistics base	SPSS version 12 or lower	Can be used with DO IF and LOOP.

Notes

For this table as an SPSS data (.sav) file, download overview_all_spss_commands.sav. For checking which commands you can and cannot use, first run show license. The result of doing so on our computer is shown in the screenshot below.

SPSS SHOW LICENSE

The table tells us we've SPSS version 22 installed with four modules. In SPSS, these are usually referred to as “options” but they somehow appear under “Component” in this table. If we look at the value labels of these options in variable view, we see that they've been coded as 1, 2, 6 and 14. This is shown by the screenshot below.

SPSS Overview Commands

This means that we can use any command that belongs to option 1, 2, 6 or 14 and was introduced in SPSS version 22 or earlier. We can easily delete all other commands by using SELECT IF with ANY as shown in the syntax below.

Delete Unavailable Commands from Overview

*1. Delete all commands that were introduced after version 22 or don't belong to options 1, 2, 6 or 14.

select if (any(option,1,2,6,14) and introduced <= 22).

*2. Run transformation and inspect result.

frequencies option.

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