Import SAS Unable to Parse File

[Alexander Testa]

Hi, I am using Stata 16 to attempt to import a SAS file (.sas7bdat). I am receiving the following error "unable to parse file"

Does anyone happen to know what might be going wrong?

[Brian McGreal]

Hello Alexander!

I'm encountering the same problem. Did you ever find a solution for this?

[Joseph Coveney]

I don't know whether Stata can import compressed SAS datasets, but that is a possibility. Does your dataset have character (string) variables? If not, then compression won't make a difference, I believe, and that possibility can be ruled out.

Another possibility is that whoever created the SAS dataset set the ENCRYPT= option to something other than its default (NO).

[Terri Fulop]

I just encounter the same problem. Any solution?

If the SAS dataset set the ENCRYPT, is there are a way to reserve it?

[Alexander Testa]

I never found a solution to this using STATA. However, I ended up getting a license to STAT Transfer and that resolved it.

[Elena Draghici]

save it as a .dta file from sas then stata can read it