I have a DO file that reads in the 1987 NMES data sets in ASCII format,
along with variable labels, in an archive available at
http://dmsweb.moore.sc.edu/glenn/nmes/, mainly for student use. The raw data
and codebooks are there as well. This may be useful for others to access if
they want these well-known data in Stata format.
Glenn
> Since we've changed topic from the original post, I took the liberty of
> editing the subject line. On your Q:
>
> On 1/23/03 10:06 PM, "Ed Bini" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I agree with David's assessment of Stata. Stata 8 is awesome. I am an
SPSS
> > junkie too but am trying to learn Stata for large CDC surveys (NHANES,
BRFSS
> > etc). David I have a question for you. The CDC surveys are in ASCII or
SAS
> > format. How do you get them into Stata and is there a way to get the
> > variable and value labels into Stata without having to use SAS? Thanks.
> > Ed
>
> Sadly, none that I know of. For NAMCS, they actually distribute SAS code
to
> get the data in. I just ran that, then used STAT/Transfer (or you could
use
> DBMS Copy, I suppose) to make it a Stata data set. All the variable names
> carried over fine, but the way SAS handles variable labels, that's not
> possible as far as I know. SAS keeps variable labels separately, in a
format
> file that you apply when you need it. The value labels are not stored with
> the data.
>
> On the bright side, this keeps the files smaller.
>
> HTH,
>
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