Truncated variable labels and string variables

[abucamara]

I am using Stata 14.

1- When I carry out tabulations, variables with long value labels are truncated even though I perform format operation. How do I avoid that?
2. When I import data into stata from excel, SPSS, etc, the string length of my variables are truncated. How do avoid this.
Any help would be appreciated.

[Joe Canner]

Dear abucamara.

I'm not aware of a way to perform a tabulation that allows more than about 30 characters of your value (or value label). When faced with this problem, sometimes I do the following:

sysuse auto
preserve
bysort make: gen count=_N
duplicates drop make, force
list make count
restore

Please provide more details on how you are importing data. Stata doesn't naturally import SPSS files, so you must be using a user-written program or another software package. Long strings shouldn't be truncated when importing in Stata 14, but it depends on what method you are using.

Regards,
Joe

[Marcos Almeida]

"abucamara" may perhaps take a look at this recent thread (http://www.statalist.org/forums/foru...-limit-rensfix). It has comments on SPSS-imported files and long strings.Best, Marcos.