st: Re: data size

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

A method that will a.s. work for Joana is to use Stat/Transfer and its 
ability to transfer a subset of the variables in a file of one format 
to another format. It is unlikely that Joana needs to use all of the 
variables in the SPSS file. Using the codebook, create a subset of 
those you need, Stat/Transfer it to Stata, and you will have a Stata 
file of workable size. If you discover a few more variables you need, 
just repeat the process--since the end result is a Stata binary file, 
that does not involve much wasted motion. It does assume that you have 
access to a copy of Stat/Transfer, for which see the Stata store.

Kit Baum, Boston College Economics
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html

On Feb 5, 2005, at 2:33 AM, Joana wrote:


> Thanks for your answer! Still I didnt manage to work with this file. 
> Ive
> tryed to take out some variables from the orginal file and still Im not
> able to open it in stata... The stata web site also provided with some
> advice that suggests that it is not really possible to do it. is there
> another software package I can turn to? thank you all! Joana
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