Open .dat file with stata

Filtered by:. Gwen Chan. How to open a. I am currently helping out on a research project that previous used SPSS to do statistical analysis, the data files came in the format of. So, is there a general way of converting the data files in a. Thank you so much! Tags: None. Comment Post Cancel.

You can download the User's Manual for each year, which will guide you in importing the file into Stata. David Radwin. Rad Cunningham. I recently did this with Bureau of Labor Statistics data. Morgan Fleming. I am a Mac user and found a very simple solution: Change the extension from.

To make the conversion, right click the file and select "get info. Delete the extension. Press "Enter" and Apple will ask if you want to use the new extension. Active 7 years, 4 months ago. Viewed 33k times. Buras Buras 2, 26 26 gold badges 77 77 silver badges bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Download the. Download corresponding. Open the. Change the paths so that they point to the saved.

Save the. I have tried this. It is works for to But still, what about the years to I opened those. Each of them is like pages, and the files are non-editable. Is there any other way? It looks like a Hercules task to write my own. Do they think people would read those. I think they MUST provide the dictionary. Imagine what computers looked like between and We should be glad the data from those years are no longer stored on punch cards. The first version of Stata was released in and its popularity grew only gradually, so it comes as no surprise that the earlier versions of the data did not come with Stata support.

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