Re: Convert an SPSS file (was: Re: st: simple question)

[Dirk Enzmann <dirk.enzmann@jura.uni-hamburg.de>]

Christian,

With respect to StatTransfer: To send the link to my SPSS script 
"spss2stata.sbs" was a reaction to Richard Williams' comment to Suzy 
(Wed, 02 Jun 2004 15:57:23 -500), but unfortunately I did reply to an 
earlier mail of him. Here is the correct one:

(snip)
> Also, one weakness I've noticed in Stat/Transfer is that when you
> convert an SPSS file, all the MD values just get converted to . in
> Stata. Hence, distinctions between "No answer" and "Not applicable"
> get lost. Perhaps there is a simpler approach I am missing, but it
> seems like you would have to undefine the MD codes in SPSS, convert
> the file, and then recode the values to MD in Stata.  If there is a
> better way, or some option in Stat/Transfer I don't know about, I
> would like to hear it.
(snip)

At least with respect to the MD codes (even with respect to missing 
date-values such as 9.9.9999), the script seems to solve this problem 
(although, I personally had no chance to test StatTranfer, yet).

Dirk

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Mon, 5 Jul 2004 18:56:17 +0200 Christian Holz <statalist@krueschan.de> 
wrote:

> I just forgot in my last posting to recommend StatTransfer
> (www.stattransfer.com), which satisfies all my needs concerning any
> conversion tasks I ever had (including SPSS, Excel or tab delimited
> text to Stata files and vice versa).



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