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st: RE: Stat Transfer Question
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"MacLennan, Graeme" <[email protected]>
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"'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
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st: RE: Stat Transfer Question
Date
Wed, 12 Oct 2011 08:55:44 +0100
Jake, a .txt file is not an SPSS file (SPSS data sets are .sav), furthermore you can open SPSS syntax files .sps in Notepad (or another text editor) or your web-browser. This will tell you about the structure of the text file, which you can also explore easily with a text editor or your web-browser. Then you will know what command is required in Stata (-infile- -insheet- whatever, depending on tab, space, comma separated and so on).
HTH, Graeme.
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jacob Robbins
Sent: 11 October 2011 17:29
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: Stat Transfer Question
Dear All,
I have recently downloaded some SPSS data files from the ICPSR and would like to convert them to .dta using Stat/Transfer. For every one dataset there are two files of the following form;
data.txt
syntax_file.sps