MISSING subcommand (REPORT command)

MISSING controls the treatment of cases with missing values.

  • MISSING specifications apply to variables named on VARIABLES and SUMMARY and to strings created with the STRING subcommand.
  • Missing-value specifications are ignored for variables named on BREAK when MISSING=VAR or NONE. There is one break category for system-missing values and one for each user-missing value.
  • The character used to indicate missing values is controlled by the FORMAT subcommand.

VAR. Missing values are treated separately for each variable. Missing values are displayed in case listings but are not included in the calculation of summary statistics on a function-by-function basis. This is the default.

NONE. User-missing values are treated as valid values. This applies to all variables named on VARIABLES.

LIST[([varlist][n])] . Cases with the specified number of missing values across the specified list of variables are not used. The variable list and n are specified in parentheses. If n is not specified, the default is 1. If no variables are specified, all variables named on VARIABLES are assumed.

Example

  /MISSING= LIST (XVAR,YVAR,ZVAR 2)
  • Any case with two or more missing values across the variables XVAR, YVAR, and ZVAR is omitted from the report.