Re: st: SPSS to STATA

[Alan Acock <acock@mac.com>]

If you are affiliated in any way with a university that has a Stata Grad plan, you can buy Stat Transfer at a greatly reduced price. Check out

http://www.stata.com/order/schoollist.html

When I started using Stata I contacted them because my campus was not part of the grad plan and they made it very simple to join this plan.

If you are in SPSS and use 'save as' to save a file as a Stata dataset, you might want to check a couple things. The last time I did this, the file was stored inefficiently. You will want to run compress from within Stata. Also, a Stata convention is to keep all variables in lower case. You may want to take advantage of the user written command, renvars, to make all the variable lower case. Others may have observed other problems.

--Alan

Alan Acock
acock@mac.com

On Sep 7, 2011, at 6:33 AM, Ronan Conroy wrote:

On 2011 MFómh 7, at 12:45, Muhammad Anees wrote:

SPSS provides directly converting data in the format which can be

directly openned into STATA.

Health warning. One of our researchers came to grief with a Stata dataset generated by SPSS.

The problem was that a string variable was incorrectly identified as numeric.

When we used StatTransfer to convert the datafile, everything was fine, but the researcher had lost a couple of days trying to fix the problem.

StatTransfer won't break the budget, and it's invaluable.

Ronán Conroy
rconroy@rcsi.ie
Associate Professor
Division of Population Health Sciences
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Beaux Lane House
Dublin 2


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