st: RE: SPSS to STATA

["Nick Cox" <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>]

Landman, Todd
 
> I have saved an SPSS file at tab delimited ASCII, used 
> insheet and STATA
> looks like it has read the data, but it only recognises some of the
> variables and thinks that some of my numeric data are 
> strings.  What is the
> best way to do this without stat transfer?

Please see the FAQ 

http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data/allstring.html

and where it leads. 

Nick 
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 
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