st: interpreting the significance level of spearmans rank correlation

[Patric Mayer <patric.mayer@gmx.de>]

hello, 

I have a question concerning the level of significance of Spearman�s rank correlation test. the calculated rank correlation ("rho") is 0.8804. the star indicates that this 0.8804 is significant at the 5% level (probability of error), right? 
however, the shown "Sig.level" value indicates 0.0000. so, what does this 0.0000 mean exactly? tells it that the probability of error is not only 5% but instead 0%? is this a good result?

thanks in advance!



. spearman, stats(rho obs p) print(0.10) star(0.05) matrix

+-----------------+
|  Key            |
|-----------------|
|   rho           |
|   Number of obs |
|   Sig. level    |
+-----------------+

             |     var1     var2
-------------+------------------
        var1 |   1.0000 
             |       25 
             | 
             |
        var2 |   0.8804*  1.0000 
             |       25       25 
             |   0.0000 
             |

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