Re: st: RE: how do i convert large data sets to stata

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

At 07:31 AM 5/30/2005 +0800, Kieran McCaul wrote:
> Maureen,
>
> open the data in SPSS and then save it as a tab-delimited ASCII file.
>
> Then open Stata and read in this file with the command:
> insheet using "filename", tab
If you need to do it this minute and don't want to spend any money, this is 
one way to go.  But, you might spend huge amounts of time redefining all 
your value labels, MD codes, etc.  Stat/Transfer is much better - even for 
a one-shot task it may well be worth it.

Also, I haven't tried it, but Dirk Enzmann's spss2stata might do the trick:

http://www2.jura.uni-hamburg.de/instkrim/kriminologie/Mitarbeiter/Enzmann/Software/Enzmann_Software.html

Also, UCLA describes how to use the fdause command - again, not sure how 
well it works:

http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/faq/convert_pkg.htm


-------------------------------------------
Richard Williams, Notre Dame Dept of Sociology
OFFICE: (574)631-6668, (574)631-6463
FAX:    (574)288-4373
HOME:   (574)289-5227
EMAIL:  Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.Edu
WWW (personal):    http://www.nd.edu/~rwilliam
WWW (department):    http://www.nd.edu/~soc

*
*   For searches and help try:
*   http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/findit.html
*   http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
*   http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/