[edited from support email]

I have made a questionnaire and in text labels have put {} brackets to denote that I want a different response written to data files. I am trying to get this response to be a scale with 0.5 increments (-1.5, -1.0, -0.5 etc). It appears to write correctly to both the excel and txt files, but in SPSS it is rounding up to nearest whole number. That is, it will write -1.5 in both the excel and txt files - but write -2.0 in SPSS.

Any ideas why this is happening? I have tried changing the syntax file although I'm making no inroads there. Thanks