Hi Stephen, A much more robust solution is to export to Stata and then read the Stata file into SPSS (in 'open' simply change the file type to Stata/.dta). SPSS has bought the StatTranfer - excellent program to convert between different statistical programs -(from version 15 i think) and is able to open a lot of different file format from the competing statistical programs - quite smart of them ;-) Kind regards Claus

Seniorstatistician Claus Holst Institute of Preventive Medicine Center for Health and Society Øster Søgade 18, 1 DK-1357 København K

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Emne [EpiData-list] SPSS v17 export problem

Hello.

I have recently "upgraded" to SPSS v17. My exports from EpiData to SPSS format no longer work.

The error messages I get in the SPSS syntax editor are: 14 DATA LIST Unrecognized text appears on the DATA LIST command where a variable name was expected. Text: TO 69 VARIABLE LABELS This command is not permitted before the beginning of file definition commands. 137 execute This command is not valid before a working file has been defined.

Can someone suggest a resolution?

Thank-you kindly. __________________________ Stephen Drew Health Data Analyst Region of Waterloo Public Health _______________________________________________ EpiData-list mailing list EpiData-list@lists.umanitoba.ca http://lists.umanitoba.ca/mailman/listinfo/epidata-list