Open Stata14 file in Stata10

[Genevie Yeo]

Hi,

Is there a way to save Stata14 file in a version that can be opened by Stata10?
Thank you.

Genevie

[Clyde Schechter]

I don't think you can do this directly. But you can use -saveold, version(12)- in Stata 14 to save the file in Stata 12 format, and then there is an .ado file called -use12.ado- that Sergiy Radyakin wrote a while back that will run in Stata 10 and can read Stata 12 files. There may be some information loss, as Stata 14 data sets have things like strL's and Unicode that didn't exist in Stata 10. But if the file doesn't make use of those innovations, I would imagine this would work OK.

-use12- is (or at least used to be) available at net from http://www.radyakin.org/transfer/use12/. I don't know if that link still works or not.

If you can't get -use12-, then I think you have to use some intermediary format such as a .csv file, or something like that. That could entail the loss of variable and value labels, but would preserve the main corpus of the data.

[Genevie Yeo]

thank you!

[Friedrich Huebler]

Stat/Transfer is another option to convert the data.