View SPV files in your browser
The file SPSS Statistics saves its Viewer in, every table an analysis made. Open one right here, laid out as SPSS shows it, without SPSS. Nothing leaves your device.
Or drop it anywhere on this page
What you'll see
Your SPSS output opens as the Viewer shows it: the outline down the left, and each table, note and log down the page.
- The outline • Pick an item to go to it, hidden ones too
- Pivot tables as SPSS lays them out • Footnotes and captions
- A picker for each layer of a table
- Export • Tables as CSV or Excel, the output as PDF
About SPV
SPSS Statistics shows every analysis it runs in its Viewer, a tree of headings down the left and the tables, charts, notes and logs beside it, and saves that output as an SPV, from SPSS 16 in 2007 on. Universities, survey firms and hospitals hand results around as these files, and GNU PSPP, the free SPSS, writes them too.
Inside, an SPV is a ZIP: the outline as XML, and each pivot table in parts of its own, a binary from SPSS 20 on and, in older files, its values beside the XML of its layout. A pivot table keeps its numbers apart from where they go, its rows, columns and layers, its footnotes and its look, and SPSS puts them together each time it shows the table.
Filepeek reads it in your browser and lays it out as the Viewer does: the outline down the left, and down the page each table with its title, footnotes and caption, a picker for each layer, and the titles, text and logs between them. An item hidden in SPSS stays hidden until you pick it in the outline. Export saves every table as CSV or one Excel workbook, and the output as PDF. Charts, model viewer items and trees, which only SPSS draws, are named in their place.
SPSS Statistics output file
.spv
Format
- MIME type
- application/x-spss-output
- Made by
- SPSS Inc., now IBM, for SPSS Statistics
- Released
- 2007
Inside the file
- Outline
- Headings, as in SPSS’s Viewer
- Tables
- Pivot tables with layers and footnotes
- Text
- Titles, notes, logs and syntax
- Packed as
- A ZIP of XML and binary parts
Opens in every browser
Filepeek opens SPV files in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari, from SPSS 16 on and from GNU PSPP. On their own, browsers only download them, and SPSS Statistics runs only on Windows, Macs and Linux.
- YouChromeOpens through Filepeek
- YouEdgeOpens through Filepeek
- YouFirefoxOpens through Filepeek
- YouSafariOpens through Filepeek
Apps that open SPV
- WindowsIBM SPSS Statistics • GNU PSPP’s pspp-output, free
- MacIBM SPSS Statistics • GNU PSPP’s pspp-output, free
- iPhone and iPadNo app built in opens it
- AndroidNo app built in opens it
Questions
How do I open an SPV file without SPSS?
Drop it on this page or choose Peek an SPV. Its outline shows down the left and every table on the page as SPSS’s Viewer shows it, on any computer or phone, with no license.
Can I get the tables into Excel?
Yes. Export saves every table on show as one Excel workbook, a sheet for each, or as CSV, and the whole output as PDF. A table with layers saves the layer you picked.
Why does a chart show only its name?
SPSS keeps its charts, model viewer items and tree diagrams in forms only SPSS draws, so Filepeek names each one where it sits. A chart saved as a picture, as GNU PSPP saves them, shows as it is.
What happened to the free SPSS Smartreader?
IBM’s Smartreader opened SPV files without a license, and SPSS Statistics 29 dropped it. Filepeek shows the output in your browser instead, and saves its tables as Excel.
Does it open SPO files?
No. SPSS 15 and older saved output as SPO, a binary of their own, which doesn’t open here. An SPSS data file, a .sav, opens as a table.