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st: Rounding Errors Stata 12
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"Gray, Charles" <[email protected]>
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st: Rounding Errors Stata 12
Date
Wed, 13 Feb 2013 09:25:35 -0500
I am having an issue with Stata 12 adding decimal places to data that I
insheet. I simply have a dataset in .csv format. The dataset contains a
variable 'item_revenue.' When I open the dataset in Excel, several
observations have a value of 60237.8 for the 'item_revenue' variable.
However, when I insheet the dataset into Stata, these values change to
60237.801. My insheet command is simply,
insheet using "data.csv", comma clear
My understanding is that the .csv format saves only the text and values
as they are displayed in cells of the active worksheet. So does anyone
know why Stata would add decimal places to a variable?
Thanks,
Charlie
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