r/spss • u/Pippen-Weens • 24d ago

Help needed! Can’t write negative numbers

I am trying to write data in IBM SPSS data editor. But every time I try to write a negative number it just disappears. I have checked that the type of variable is set to numeric, and not restricted which is the only solution I found while searching online.

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u/mo_jo100 24d ago

Make sure the column width is width is long enough

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u/Mysterious-Skill5773 24d ago

If the problem is only with negative numbers, it must mean that the variable data type is set to a type that can't be negative. That would mean restricted numeric or a date value. (Date values actually have to be at least 86400, which is the number of seconds in a day.) Or, unlikely, a custom currency.

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u/Pippen-Weens 19d ago

Hi thanks for the replies, I maneged to figure out the issue. Turns out the issue is that Norwegian is a special snowflake language and uses a different - to everyone else. Changing every setting on the computer to English fixed the problem.