st: avoiding rounding when using -outsheet-

[Dean Yang <dyang@fas.harvard.edu>]

Can anyone tell me how to keep my data from being rounded to 3 significant 
figures when exporting my data from Stata using -outsheet-?

For example, I have an item of data which is 531,123,435 (531 million, 123 
thousand, and 435). When I use -outsheet- to create an ASCII file of the 
data, this data point becomes 531,000,000 in the ASCII file.

The variable storage type is numeric (double).

What is going on? How can I keep the data from being rounded without 
exporting the data as a string variable?

Thanks in advance,
Dean Yang
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Dean Yang
Ph.D. Candidate, Economics
Harvard University
email dyang@fas.harvard.edu

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