Hi everyone,

I would like to know if it is possible to change the amount of characters that SPSS allows for value labels, because now we can only put 120 characters as value.

This is the error:

299 VALUE LABELS A label that appears in the (ADD) VALUE LABELS command exceeds 120 characters in width. The label will be truncated to 120 characters.

No. Value labels are limited to 120 characters. Long labels can be very awkward in output tables or charts, too. Variable labels can be up to 256 bytes, but that also would be awkward.

However, if your goal is to record aspects of the data, you might consider using custom variable attributes. See the VARIABLE ATTRIBUTES command. Attributes can be displayed in the Data Editor and referenced in Python code.