usespss

[Marry Lee]

Hello,
Iam using Stata18, I wanted to install usespss but failed.
I had the following error:

package does not contain usespss.ado for WIN64 platform
could not load usespss.pkg from http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/u/

r(601);

what can I do about this please?

Edit: Sorry, this has been solved as I noticed now that Stata18 allows to import sav files immediately. All the best.

[Chen Samulsion]

I guess the reason is that -usespss- command was designed for 32-bit Stata for Windows. Sergiy Radyakin

d 'USESPSS': module to import SPSS (*.sav) data (Windows only)
d
d USESPSS loads an SPSS-format (*.sav) dataset into memory. It
d supports compressed and non-compressed SPSS files from Windows
d and UNIX/Mac platforms. It preserves the variable and value
d labels, long variable names, extended missing values, and
d provides optimization of variable types. USESPSS is implemented
d as a plugin for 32-bit Stata for Windows and is comparable in
d speed with commercially available conversion software. 
d
d KW: SPSS
d KW: sav
d KW: data transfer
d
d Requires: Stata version 8 for Windows
d
d Distribution-Date: 20080804
d
d Author: Sergiy Radyakin, Development Economics Research Group, World Bank
d Support: email sradyakin@@worldbank.org
d
f  WIN64 usespss.ado
f  usespss.hlp
f  usespss.dlg
f  ../d/desspss.ado
f  ../_/_usespss.ado
f  ../_/_desspss.ado
G WIN usespss.win32 usespss.plu
h usespss.ado

[George Ford]

why not use import spss?

or importsav (Which requires you have R installed)

[Marry Lee]

Thank you George Ford. I now solved the problem.