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GUIDES

Guides

Practical write-ups on working with .sav files — starting small, growing as we publish more.

How to open a .sav file without SPSSFive free ways to read an SPSS .sav file when you don't have an SPSS license — including the converter on this site.How to convert SAV to CSV in RA script generator plus the five things that quietly break an SPSS conversion in haven, foreign and rio.

More guides — on value labels, GDPR and uploading research data, and the .sav binary format — are on the way.