SPSS Date Calculations – A Quick Tutorial

“I've a string variable in my data holding dates formatted as ‘01JAN2016’ without separators between the day, month and year...

Introduction Extracting the year (or any component) from a date is straightforward with the XDATE ("EXtract DATE") function....

Summary For time calculations (such as the number of days between two dates) proper date variables are needed. In some cases, the digits...

SPSS date variables may seem a bit puzzling at first. However, getting things done fast and accurately with SPSS date variables is not hard...

For converting string variables to date variables, ALTER TYPE is the way to go. This tutorial demonstrates how to do this and points...