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| From | Anders Alexandersson <andersalex@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: RE: converting SAS file to stata using stat transfer-date and time variables |
| Date | Tue, 21 Dec 2010 11:17:36 -0500 |
Leny, what is weird? Nick (and others, including Bill Gould) gave you a reasonable explanation to the problem and useful advice. Stat/Transfer does not support conversions between any of the numeric types, dates, or strings. I guess this is why the conversion results surprised you. You are using an old version of Stat/Transfer. Some people might think that is weird. If you need more help, please provide log files. Anders Alexandersson andersalex@gmail.com On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Leny Mathew <lenymathewc@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Nick. It's weird considering that the conversion to excel works > fine. I can convert it as a csv file and then get it into stata > without any issue. > > On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk> wrote: >> I wouldn't assume much in this territory. Dates and times seem simple in principle but can be very awkward in practice. >> >> On this information, my only guess is that time (presumably time of day, up to 24hr) is being converted to fraction of a day. You need to look really closely at the data in SAS and in Stata. >> >> Nick >> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk >> >> Leny Mathew >> >> I'm trying to convert a SAS file (V 9.1) with date and time variables >> (separate) into stata and I'm using stat transfer (version 8) for >> this. During the conversion, the date variable comes across fine, but >> all the time variable values are between 0 and 1. stat transfer reads >> the SAS file without any problem, it looks fine in the viewer and it >> converts into excel without any problem. I didn't have to format the >> date variable within stata, so I'm assuming that I don't have to do >> any formatting for the time variable either. Has anyone had this issue >> before? >> Any comments are much appreciated. I'm using stata 10.1 * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/