Re: st: How to re-program -save9- for Stata 13?

[Dirk Enzmann <dirk.enzmann@uni-hamburg.de>]

The conversion problem will most likely not affect people having access 
to Stata *and* to SPSS and using their data for themselves, only.

But: There are people living is poorer countries / working at poorer 
equipped institutions / having less resources so that they have to use 
the software available. These people can't choose as easily to buy 
StatTransfer or to buy a Stata license. But very often these people 
still have access to SPSS (of course, you can ask what drives their poor 
institution to buy the much more expensive SPSS package, but this is a 
different point).

With SPSS, however, you can only import Stata 8/9 (format 113) and 10/11 
(format 114) files, but not newer. Imagine there are persons who would 
like to use Stata and who (for good reasons) decide to buy the newest 
version of Stata (and not SPSS): If they represent a minority in a 
research project co-operating with many researchers using SPSS (some for 
the above mentioned reason), they will feel a strong pressure to decide 
against Stata because -saveold- of Stata 13 saves files (format 117) 
only in Stata 12 (format 115), thus they have to buy StatTransfer 
additionally, otherwise their co-operation will stop. If they had the 
possibility to save Stata 13 files from within Stata in a format which 
can be read by SPSS (format 114 would be sufficient), they had much 
better arguments to buy Stata 13.

This is not a theoretical possibility only, I know colleagues having 
exactly this problem.

Dirk

Tue, 15 Oct 2013 16:19:51 +0100, Nick Cox<njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote
> Not to knock SPSS, although for many that qualifies as an acceptable
> sport, but what drives people to use SPSS if they also have access to
> Stata?
>
> I am not trying to be ironic here. It is (literally) decades, i.e.
> sometime last century I think, since I last used SPSS, so I am quite
> out of touch on its relative strengths.
>
> Please take as understood that some users prefer its user interface.

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