to non-Stata users. I don't know if it answers
your specific question.
Nick
[email protected]
Amnon Melzer
>
> I have just purchased a data set from a data provider, in
> DTA format. I am
> not a STATA user, so I need some help interpreting it.
>
> I wish to load the data up into a MySQL database. However, I do not
> understand how to interpret the DTA file. Most of the rows
> are fine, I
> understand them fully. But when a respondent has a multiple
> answer to a
> particular question, a * is put there and there are some
> extra characters at
> the end of the line. See below for an example. Look at the
> third row:
>
> ...
> 710001 494949
> 032
> 710001 1
> 27
> 036
> 710001 * 9* 9* 952
> 111314120000001000060
> 038^?@L@L@L
> 710001 1
> 222
> 00240039
> 710001 4 211111102 2522221 12 1 800
> 040
> ...
>
> All I need from you is how to interpret these additional characters.
> (^?@L@L@L). I understand these interpret the *'s but I
> don't know how cannot
> get further from there.
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