st: RE: Stat Transfer Question

["MacLennan, Graeme" <g.maclennan@abdn.ac.uk>]

Jake, a .txt file is not an SPSS file (SPSS data sets are  .sav), furthermore you can open SPSS syntax files .sps in Notepad (or another text editor) or your web-browser.  This will tell you about the structure of the text file, which you can also explore easily with a text editor or your web-browser.  Then you will know what command is required in Stata (-infile- -insheet- whatever, depending on tab, space, comma separated and so on).
HTH, Graeme.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Jacob Robbins
Sent: 11 October 2011 17:29
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject: st: Stat Transfer Question

Dear All,

I have recently downloaded some SPSS data files from the ICPSR and would like to convert them to .dta using Stat/Transfer. For every one dataset there are two files of the following form;

data.txt
syntax_file.sps