Re: st: Translator for SAS/SPSS control files?

[Daniel Feenberg <feenberg@nber.org>]

On Tue, 14 Dec 2010, Maarten buis wrote:

> --- On Tue, 14/12/10, kjkhoo@softhome.net wrote:
> > The latest PISA data set has been made available but with
> > control files for SPSS and SAS. Are there any translators
> > out there for such files to enable the data to be read into
> > Stata with minimal additional work?
>
> I don't think there is a translator for control files. The
> easiest way is probably to transfer the data using
> Stat/Transfer: <http://www.stattransfer.com/>

Stat/Transfer is great, but the OP would have to have SAS or SPSS
to create the binary file for S/T to translate. Sometimes the
input statements for large files are so consistent from variable
to variable that it is possible to write 5 or 10 lines of code
to translate to a Stata dictionary. A general translator that
could handle any SAS input statement would be much more complicated.

Daniel Feenberg


> Hope this helps,
> Maarten
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