Example (VARIABLE ATTRIBUTE Command)

VARIABLE ATTRIBUTE
  VARIABLES=Age Income1 Income2 Income3
  ATTRIBUTE=AnswerFormat('Fill-in')
  /VARIABLES=Gender OwnHome MortgageType 
  ATTRIBUTE=AnswerFormat('Single select')
  /VARIABLES=AvgIncome
  ATTRIBUTE=AnswerFormat('Computed value')
  /VARIABLES=AvgIncome
   ATTRIBUTE=Formula('mean(Income1, Income2, Income3)')
   /VARIABLES=AvgIncome
   ATTRIBUTE=DerivedFrom[1]('Income1')
   DerivedFrom[2]('Income2')
   DerivedFrom[3]('Income3').
DISPLAY ATTRIBUTES.

The variables Age, Income1, Income2, and Income3 are assigned the variable attribute AnswerFormat with a value of Fill-in.
The variables Gender, OwnHome, and MortgageType are assigned the variable attribute AnswerFormat with a value of Single select.
The variable AvgIncome is assigned the variable attribute AnswerFormat with a value of Computed value.
The variable AvgIncome is assigned the variable attribute Formula, with a value the describes the formula used to calculate the value of this variable.
The variable AvgIncome is assigned the variable attribute array DerivedFrom, and each array value identifies one of the variables used to calculate the value of AvgIncome.
DISPLAY ATTRIBUTES lists the variable attributes for each variable in the active dataset.