Well, I'd tried dollar8. before I went down this road and I got an error indicating dollar8. was an invalid format; but for some reason dollar16. worked.  Thanks! ... View more

One approach might be: Import as you have, modify settings like length and drop the multiple text bits for single variables. Save as a 0 observations data set. Then import a CSV and append to the previous. Or try accessing the SAV file using the libname statement instead of Proc Import. If I had access to SPSS I would see about exporting to SAS from there. The last time I was working with SPSS one option would export the value labels as a SAS format for use as well. ... View more

It has been a long time since I worked with SPSS but I know that the last version had an export to SAS feature that allowed it to create SAS Proc Format code to generate value labels and I think the variable labels came across as well with the limits on SAS labels. If the data had the entire question, and possibly response choices, as the variable label then the length likely exceeds SAS label limits but would be a start. ... View more