What is the MAXIMUM number of variables that can be entered into an SPSS Frequencies command?

Question

As it says on the tin. I know that it will be somewhere between 125 and 2013 but trying to streamline my code.

Any help greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

The DOCS say 1000 is the maximum (see the Limitations section). You could reach the limits of displaying tables in the output in memory, making the effective number smaller (depends on the style of tables you have it output as well as the number of rows displayed in the tables).

This isn't to say that outputting 1,000 frequencies is ever a really good idea. Why would you ever want to visually pour over that many tables?