st: Re: ss# imports as scientific notation

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

I would first try:

format ssn %9.0f

The problem may just be the display format.  If you find that you've lost 
precision (in the last digit) and it is stored as a float, you could try the 
double option to insheet.

Michael Blasnik
michael.blasnik@verizon.net

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robin Newberry" <wnewber@clemson.edu>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 1:11 PM
Subject: st: ss# imports as scientific notation



> For some reason when I was importing a comma delimited dataset into Stata 
> it converted all of the SS# info into scientific notation. The #'s weren't 
> in standard ss# format (999-99-9999) but unformatted (999999999), so the 
> end result was 9.99e+08. Currently the filed is in %10.0g format - is 
> there a way to convert these back to a non numeric field?
> --
> Robin
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> W. Robert Newberry, IV CIH, CHMM
> Chief Environmental Health and Safety Officer
> Clemson University
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