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Re: st: Reading and writing Stata data files
From
Friedrich Huebler <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Reading and writing Stata data files
Date
Thu, 19 Aug 2010 09:43:57 -0400
Normand,
See -help dta- for a description of the .dta file format.
http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?dta
Friedrich
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Normand Peladeau
<[email protected]> wrote:
> We developed a text mining application an another one for qualitative
> analysis (manual coding and annotation) of documents. Many people use our
> tools and then export their data to a statistical software to perform
> further analysis. We already export to several file formats including SPSS,
> Excel, Tab delimited and comma delimited files, as well as a few others. We
> also import data from all these formats.
>
> Since many of our users are using Stata, I thought it would be convenient to
> be able at least to write Stata data files or files that could at least be
> processed with Stata easily. Being able to read Stata data files would also
> be great (we merge numerical data with the documents in a single database).
>
> SPSS has a special DLL that may be used by programmers to read and write
> SPSS .sav files. Is there such a programming library for Stata files? If
> not, is the format of the Stata data file documented somewhere?
>
> If none of the above resources exists, I assume that we could write some
> text files with data and importation routines. What would be the most
> convenient way to do this for a Stata user?
>
> Normand Péladeau
> Provalis Research
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