Re: st: SAS to Stata

[Ted Anagnoson <anag999@silcom.com>]

Jun,

insheet, infile and infix are all for raw data.  Once your data are in SAS 
format, you can:

1. convert it to Stata directly with Stat/Transfer or dbms/Copy or ?  Then 
you run Stata commands on the Stata data set.
2. Output raw data in comma delimited format or tab delimited format -- 
then use insheet, infile, or infix.  But you would have to input variable 
and value labels, missing data, all that -- all over again.  Then you have 
a Stata data set and you run Stata commands on it.

Hope this helps.

Ted Anagnoson
Political Science
California State Univ., Los Angeles



At 09:38 PM 10/20/02 -0500, you wrote:

> I have a series of SAS data sets to be transformed into Stata as Stata is 
> more flexible to do some post estimation analysis than SAS does.  I can 
> use some data transfer programs like DBMSCOPY, but not as reproducible as 
> using some commands directly in Stata.  Any suggestions?  They are already 
> in SAS data format.  I looked into and tried commands such as insheet, 
> infile, and infix, and it seems that they are not well suited for 
> it.  Really appreciate.
>
>
> Jun Xu
> Department of Sociology
> Indiana University at Bloomington
>
>
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