MISSING Specification (MATRIX-END MATRIX command)

MISSING specifies how missing values declared for the IBM® SPSS® Statistics data file should be handled.

• The MISSING specification is required if the data file contains missing values for any variable being read.
• If you omit the MISSING specification and a missing value is encountered for a variable being read, an error message is displayed and the GET statement is not executed.

The following keywords are available on the MISSING specification. There is no default.

ACCEPT. Accept user-missing values for entry. If the system-missing value exists for a variable to be read, you must specify SYSMIS to indicate how the system-missing value should be handled.

OMIT. Skip an entire observation when a variable with a missing value is encountered.

value. Recode all missing values encountered (including the system-missing value) to the specified value for entry. The replacement value can be any numeric constant.