Re: st: Rounding Errors Stata 12

[Marta García-Granero <mgarciagranero@gmail.com>]

Hi Charles:

The default storage type format for insheet is float. Try reading your 
file as double:

insheet using "data.csv", comma clear double


HTH,
Marta Garcia-Granero

(PS: first post of a veeery long time SPSS user, recently switched to 
Stata, still a bit overwhelmed)

El 13/02/2013 15:25, Gray, Charles escribió:
> 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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