Re: st: Converting SAS or SPSS setup files to stata do files

[Steven Dubnoff <sdubnoff@circlesys.com>]

> I was hoping someone had a
> perl script or other way to use regular expressions or what have you
> to convert a SAS or SPSS setup file to a stata dictionary.

I am not aware of any tool that does the job.  The simplest thing to 
do is to beg or borrow a copy of SPSS, read the data, save it .sav 
format and then run that file through Stat/Transfer.

If that is not an option, Stat/Transfer's own schema format is very 
similar to SPSS's. It would not take much, if any, editing to convert 
the SPSS syntax files to Stat/Transfer schema files.  Stat/Transfer 
can then write either a .dta or a .do file for you.


Best,

Steve



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