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| From | "John Sandberg, Prof." <john.sandberg@mcgill.ca> |
| To | "statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
| Subject | st: RE: How to read a very old SPSS file? |
| Date | Sat, 5 Feb 2011 06:10:32 -0500 |
If this hasn't already been solved (I am missing the other responses) have you tried stat/transfer? Its specialty is reading arcane legacy archives. Back in the day, the owner (I've forgotten his name unfortunately) wrote the code and answered the phones - he was really helpful if you had something his program couldn't transfer. Jack John Sandberg Associate Research Professor University of Maryland Population Research Center Associate Professor Department of Sociology McGill University Stephen Leacock Building Room 712 855 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal, Quebec, H3A 2T7, Canada (240) 413-4571 john.sandberg@mcgill.ca -----Original Message----- From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of S.Jenkins@lse.ac.uk Sent: February 5, 2011 5:30 AM To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu Subject: st: How to read a very old SPSS file? Thanks to Michael Mitchell <Michael.Norman.Mitchell@gmail.com> and Sergiy Radyakin <serjradyakin@gmail.com> for their very helpful comments on this issue. Following up Michael's remark that " The SPSS binary file in EBCDIC format needs to be read using an IBM mainframe version of SPSS", would anyone who has access to such a computer and would be able to try and read the file for me, please contact me off list? Sergiy: thanks very much for your offer. I'll contact you off list next week, as you suggest. General lesson for you all: be very very cautious in your archiving of precious data. I hadn't intended to dabble in IT archaeology, but I've ended up in this situation due to my naïve archiving methods 20 years ago during two job moves. I archived a readable copy in ascii format (exported from SPSS) to a 3.5" floppy disk, but later discovered the disk was faulty. Mea culpa. Stephen ------------------------------------- Stephen P. Jenkins <s.jenkins@lse.ac.uk> Department of Social Policy and STICERD/CASE London School of Economics and Political Science Houghton Street London WC2A 2AE, U.K. Tel. +44 (0)20 7955 6527 Survival Analysis using Stata: http://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/survival-analysis Downloadable papers and software: http://ideas.repec.org/e/pje7.html Please access the attached hyperlink for an important electronic communications disclaimer: http://lse.ac.uk/emailDisclaimer * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5847 (20110204) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5847 (20110204) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/