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Nick
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Cox [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 01 December 2003 14:32
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: DTA File Format
>
>
> http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?dta is accessible
> 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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