Variable Types (GET SAS command)

Both SAS and IBM® SPSS® Statistics allow two basic types of variables: numeric and character string. During conversion, SAS numeric variables become IBM SPSS Statistics numeric variables, and SAS string variables become IBM SPSS Statistics string variables of the same length.
Date, time, and date/time SAS variables are converted to equivalent IBM SPSS Statistics date, time, and date/time variables. All other numeric formats are converted to the default numeric format.