.sav files

[Ghia Osseiran]

Hi- I'm trying to import .sav files into Stata. Could anyone please advise on the commands I would need to open those in Stata?
Thanks,
Ghia

[Friedrich Huebler]

See the user-written usespss package from SSC.

ssc d usespss

[ben earnhart]

See: http://radyakin.org/transfer/usespss...espss_faq.html

Note that if you try to download from SSC, it's gone, since it was broken. But his beta version available at the link above seems to work fine.

[Jorge Eduardo Perez Perez]

See the user written command usespss

net from http://radyakin.org/transfer/usespss/beta
net install usespss
h usespss

[Ghia Osseiran]

Thanks. I'm using Mac and so I'm guessing there is no way to import .sav files otherwise correct?

[Jorge Eduardo Perez Perez]

You can do it through R

https://codeandculture.wordpress.com...do-requires-r/

[Marcos Almeida]

There is always the option of transfering it under a widely used spreadsheet (say, Excel) and afterwards entering the data into Stata. Also, you may save the data from SPSS as a csv file and, again, import it into Stata.

[Friedrich Huebler]

Stat/Transfer is an excellent program that is also available for Mac OS. The full list of supported platforms is available here.

[ben earnhart]

SPSS can save directly as Stata, so if you have access to SPSS, you're set. .csv or Excel files will work, but saving as Stata keeps labels and such.

[David Radwin]

If you don't own SPSS, you could use freeware PSPP.

http://www.stata.com/statalist/archi.../msg00095.html

[Mike Lacy]

@Ghia Osseiran: You're welcome to contact me privately, and I could convert your file with -usespss- . This is not a generally available service <grin>, but since you're a regular participant on Statalist, I'd be happy to take the 30 sec. it would take to convert the file.

[David Radwin]

Another possible solution that uses R: https://codeandculture.wordpress.com...do-requires-r/

Let us know if it works.

[Mark McCall]

I'm quite new to STATA, with just a half dozen do files. A couple of times a year, a site insists upon supplying SPSS .sav files (yes, we have asked them to supply in other formats). I am using version 13, and would like to try the 64-bit version of usespss. Installing R seems like a bit of a sledgehammer and nut solution. I have already tried the latest version of PSPP (0.10.2), but maddeningly it won't allow me to export in any format!

I can't seem to track down the beta copy of usespss which seems ideal for my needs. Any pointers gratefully received.

Thanks for reading

Mark

[Jorrit Gosens]

Did you try

findit usespss

Or what is the problem otherwise?

[Mark McCall]

Thanks for your reply

I have tried that (along with numerous web trawls), and upon clicking the hyperlink, I get :

"server refused to send file
http://fmwww.bc.edu/RePEc/bocode/u/ either
1) is not a valid URL, or
2) could not be contacted, or
3) is not a Stata download site (has no stata.toc file).

r(672);
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(click here to return to the previous screen)"

As described above, I am looking for the 64 bit beta version of usespss - all links seem to be broken.