> But my problem was rather that I have shapefile with polygons, and to transfer them
> into .dta, I dont know any other way that using shp2dta, which automatically computes
> the centroids of the polygones.
The help file for -shp2dta- says that it will compute the centroids if
-gencentroids( )- option is specified.
If this is the case, just leave it out.
It may be that both .shp and .dbf files are required.
Roy
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