There are a number of issues in relation to export and import to SPSS (and SAS plus Stata)
These are for text fields related to the use or lack of use of utf-8 representation. I am not sure how Stattransfer handles text encoding, so some experimentation with exports and specification of these would be welcomed.
I am aware that one user managed via placing the text fields at the end of the dataform and asked for a "point by point" recipe, but have not received any answer yet.
In other words - please try in relation to specification of character encoding and let us know of the results on the list. (we do not have access to SPSS)
regards Jens Lauritsen EpiData Association
On 07/17/2013 03:25 AM, epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca wrote:
Hello,
I am currently working to try to import data into SPSS. I created the .dat file with StatTransfer from the Stata-formatted file. Looking at the .sps file, it appears that one of my variables which should be 70 characters (and is specified as such in the EpiData Manager) contains only 1 character.
I noticed this issue while rewriting the syntax to pull the data into SPSS. Our variables are embedded within the string variables (e.g., EPIVAR = 56 -> VAR1 = 5 VAR2 = 6).
We used spaces as missing data. Could it be an issue with missing data? It shouldn't be, if the field is specified as 70 characters!
How can this be? It is making me very anxious. _______________________________________________ EpiData-list mailing list EpiData-list@lists.umanitoba.ca http://lists.umanitoba.ca/mailman/listinfo/epidata-list