NUMERIC

NUMERIC explicitly declares new numeric variables, optionally setting their output formats.

NUMERIC VAR_LIST [(FMT_SPEC)] [/VAR_LIST [(FMT_SPEC)]]...

Specify the names of the new numeric variables as VAR_LIST. If you wish to set the variables' output formats, follow their names by an output format in an output format in parentheses; otherwise, the default is F8.2.

Variables created with NUMERIC are initialized to the system-missing value.