Re: st: RE: Use of data originating from SPSS

[Margaret MacDougall <Margaret.MacDougall@ed.ac.uk>]

Dear Graeme

Thanks for your message.  I had already applied the necessary patch to 
version  19.0.0 of SPSS to convert to version 19.0.0.1. In fact, if you 
don't apply this patch, you will not be able to obtain a Stata copy of 
your data, even though there is an SPSS dialogue box which dupes you 
into thinking you have saved your data successfully in Stata fromat.

With the above patch applied, I would have expected things to have gone 
more smoothly.

Best wishes

Margaret
On 02/02/2012 07:50, MacLennan, Graeme wrote:
> Margaret, in addition to the advice already given, a quick aside. You do not state what version of SPSS you used to save .dta files, but the first release of version 19 had a bug in it which caused problems when translating to .dta.  This was fixed in the first update.  But -usespss- (SSC) gets round any problems.
> Regards, Graeme. (A fellow SPSS-to-Stata migrant).
>
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> From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Margaret MacDougall
> Sent: 01 February 2012 17:23
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: st: Use of data originating from SPSS
>
> Hello
>
> I have recently migrated from SPSS to Stata to allow me to implement fractional polynomial techniques, including the mfp procure, for a logistic regression analysis. I have been able to save the original SPSS file in Stata format. The variables in the SPSS file were of numeric "Type" (in the sense intended by the SPSS Variable View facility) with text labels linked to the numerical codes using the SPSS Value Labels function. On opening up the Stata version of this file, the text labels appear in the individual columns for the dependent and independent variables. When I run the code for identifying the Stata file and running the mfp procedure, the error code r(2000) is generated, pointed to an absence of observations.
>
> Is it possible that I require to reformat the data in some way for the procedure to run successfully? I would be grateful for some handy tips to save some time.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Best wishes
>
> Margaret
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