Save translate

[Javier Meneses]

Hi, I am using spss split dataset like example, but I want that the new file generated to be  saved  to stata format..

How I get this?

Example:

spssinc split dataset splitvar = county
/OUTPUT DIRECTORY= "C:\county_files" DELETECONTENTS = NO
FILENAME = "County_${county}_accounts"
/OPTIONS NAMES =VALUES PRINTLIST=YES .

   Javier

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[Jon K Peck]

SPLIT DATASET only produces sav files.  To get another format or to do other tasks, you would typically use
SPSSINC PROCESS FILES to iterate through the files produced by SPLIT DATASET and apply a syntax file to each.  That syntax, in your case, would use the file handle provided by PROCESS FILES to open a sav file and then use SAVE TRANSLATE to write a different format.  PROCESS FILES provides a macro definition for each input, so you can use that to construct an appropriate extension for the SAVE TRANSLATE file specification.

SPLIT DATASET only produces sav files, because it uses XSAVE as it iterates the cases to produce the output.  This is very efficient, since it can write up to 64 files on a single data pass without the input being sorted.


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Hi, I am using spss split dataset like example, but I want that the new file generated to be  saved  to stata format..

How I get this?

Example:
spssinc split dataset splitvar = county
/OUTPUT DIRECTORY= "C:\county_files" DELETECONTENTS = NO
FILENAME = "County_${county}_accounts"
/OPTIONS NAMES =VALUES PRINTLIST=YES .


   Javier
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