Re: st: Rounding Errors Stata 12

[Jeph Herrin <stata@spandrel.net>]

Did you check to see if Excel was rounding it's display? Because it 
usually does. It might be hiding those last digits from you.

J


On 2/13/2013 9:25 AM, Gray, Charles wrote:
> I am having an issue with Stata 12 adding decimal places to data that I
> insheet. I simply have a dataset in .csv format. The dataset contains a
> variable 'item_revenue.' When I open the dataset in Excel, several
> observations have a value of 60237.8 for the 'item_revenue' variable.
> However, when I insheet the dataset into Stata, these values change to
> 60237.801. My insheet command is simply,
>
> insheet using "data.csv", comma clear
>
> My understanding is that the .csv format saves only the text and values
> as they are displayed in cells of the active worksheet. So does anyone
> know why Stata would add decimal places to a variable?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Charlie
>
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