Todd,
I had the same problem and I solved it eliminating the string variables
of the original base.
Regards,
Fabio Vio Lyon
CODETEL
--- Ted Anagnoson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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