Re: st: Stat/Transfer

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@nd.edu>]

At 11:17 AM 3/31/2004 +1000, Jason Payne wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Does anyone in this forum use Stat/Transfer 7... and if so, should I be 
> able to transfer the value labels and variable lables from an SPSS data 
> (.sav) file to a Stata(.dta) file?
>
> I was under the assumption that this was a function of the Stat/transfer 
> program - however cannot perform this task or find any information about 
> how to do it.
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Regards
>
> Jason P
I do it all the time Jason.  What exactly is the problem you are 
having?  There are various ways to do it.  For my own part, I just start 
Stat/Transfer, click on the transfer tab, and then choose the import and 
export file types and file specifications.  You can also run Stat/transfer 
from within Stata (at least if the necessary ado files are installed); type 
-help stcmd-.

Do you perhaps mean that you want to save ONLY the labels?  If so, I 
suppose I would convert the files, and then delete everything except the 
first case (and then delete it once I had added my real data).


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