st: Re: openning an SPSS file

[Roger Newson <roger.newson@kcl.ac.uk>]

At 10:33 15/10/03 -0700, Ashley Fenzl wrote:
> This seems like it would be an easy task, however I cannot find the answer 
> on how to do it anywhere.  Could someone please tell me how to open an 
> SPSS file in Stata?  Thank you.  I appreciate the help!
I presume that Ashley has no access to StatTransfer, DBMS/Copy or other 
data conversion software. (This is the thing to use if possible. 
StatTransfer, in particular, can be called from within Stata using the 
-stcmd- package, distributed with StatTransfer or alternatively 
downloadable from SSC.)

If you type -findit spss- in Web-aware Stata, then Stata will inform you of 
the UCLA web page

http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/faq/convert_pkg.htm

which advises the user to use SPSS to write the data to a text file file 
using the menu sequence

File->Save as...

and then to input the text file into Stata using the -insheet- command. 
This will convert the variable names and values, but not the variable 
labels, value labels and formats. (To convert those, you need data 
conversion software.)

I hope this helps.

Roger


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