library(foreign) mydata <- suppressMessages(read.spss("mval_bug.sav", use.value.labels = TRUE, to.data.frame = TRUE, use.missings = TRUE)) levels(mydata$Q1_MISSING_NONE) table(mydata$Q1_MISSING_NONE) levels(mydata$Q1_MISSING_1) table(mydata$Q1_MISSING_1) levels(mydata$Q1_MISSING_2) table(mydata$Q1_MISSING_2) levels(mydata$Q1_MISSING_3) table(mydata$Q1_MISSING_3) levels(mydata$Q1_MISSING_RANGE) table(mydata$Q1_MISSING_RANGE) levels(mydata$Q1_MISSING_LOW) table(mydata$Q1_MISSING_LOW) levels(mydata$Q1_MISSING_HIGH) table(mydata$Q1_MISSING_HIGH) levels(mydata$Q1_MISSING_RANGE_1) table(mydata$Q1_MISSING_RANGE_1) levels(mydata$Q1_MISSING_LOW_1) table(mydata$Q1_MISSING_LOW_1) levels(mydata$Q1_MISSING_HIGH_1) table(mydata$Q1_MISSING_HIGH_1)