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Re: st: importing spss data
On 22 Jul 2008, at 21:34, SR Millis wrote:
While in SPSS, save your data as a tab-delimited or comma-delimited
file.
Then read the data into Stata using the infile, infix, or insheet
command, depending on the file format. For information about
infiling data and the method you should use, see the help file for
infiling.
This solution does have the disadvantage that variable labels, value
labels and missing value information are lost.
The option to save a Stata file from within SPSS is good, but a little
investment in StatTransfer is something that rapidly pays for itself
in time saved. Though personally I spend this time drinking
cappuccinos, so the added costs would have to be factored in too.
Ronan Conroy
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