Re: st: SPSS to STATA

[Ted Anagnoson <anag999@silcom.com>]

One factor that could produce this is if the first line of data has missing 
data on any of the variables.  I often put in a dummy line for the first 
line, a whole bunch of 9s or 99s or 999s.

Ted Anagnoson
Cal State Los Angeles


At 05:21 PM 10/17/02 +0100, you wrote:

> I have saved an SPSS file at tab delimited ASCII, used insheet and STATA
> looks like it has read the data, but it only recognises some of the
> variables and thinks that some of my numeric data are strings.  What is the
> best way to do this without stat transfer?
>
> Todd
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