User Guide

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Reading Data
All of the data in the Access database that you selected to import are now available in
theSPSSDataEditor.
Figure 3-15
Data imported from an Access database
Readin
gDatafromaTextFile
Text fi
les are another common source of data. Many spreadsheet programs and
databases can save their contents in one of many text file formats. Comma or
tab-delimited files refer to rows of data that use commas or tabs to indicate each
varia
ble. In this example, the data are tab delimited.