Since we've changed topic from the original post, I took the liberty of
editing the subject line. On your Q:
On 1/23/03 10:06 PM, "Ed Bini" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I agree with David's assessment of Stata. Stata 8 is awesome. I am an SPSS
> junkie too but am trying to learn Stata for large CDC surveys (NHANES, BRFSS
> etc). David I have a question for you. The CDC surveys are in ASCII or SAS
> format. How do you get them into Stata and is there a way to get the
> variable and value labels into Stata without having to use SAS? Thanks.
> Ed
Sadly, none that I know of. For NAMCS, they actually distribute SAS code to
get the data in. I just ran that, then used STAT/Transfer (or you could use
DBMS Copy, I suppose) to make it a Stata data set. All the variable names
carried over fine, but the way SAS handles variable labels, that's not
possible as far as I know. SAS keeps variable labels separately, in a format
file that you apply when you need it. The value labels are not stored with
the data.
On the bright side, this keeps the files smaller.
HTH,
Dave
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