Laurel. Excellent! Many thanks!
Todd
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Laurel A Copeland [SMTP:[email protected]]
> Sent: 17 October 2002 19:06
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: st: SPSS to STATA
>
> A free program that can be used instead of Stat Transfer is EpiData
> (http://www.epidata.dk/). You can download it quickly wherever you are (I
>
> use it when I am on the road).
>
> It will let you define a *.qes file to match your *.txt file, tab
> delimited. Then you can Import the *.txt file, using the *.qes file to
> define your variables -- names, variable types. Then the resultant
> EpiData
> file can be exported to Stata. I tried it with a ds that had the first 10
>
> lines all missing data, and the variables were nonetheless numeric in
> Stata, having been defined as numeric along the way.
> hth, Laurel
>
>
> At 05:21 PM 10/17/2002 +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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>
> Laurel A Copeland, PhD
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