Hi, I'm using state-level data-sets [Youth Risk Behavioral Surveillance System (YRBSS) collected by the CDC] for my dissertation. Some of the earlier data-sets have '.dat' file extensions and I'm not sure how to open these or transform them into readable forms in Stata 13. I've been using StatTransfer to transfer all other YRBSS data-sets from SAS files into Stata, but the older data-sets with the '.dat' file extensions, I'm having trouble with. I contacted someone at the CDC, and he said I'd need to create a program for Stata to read these data-sets. Saying that, I'm wondering if there was an available paper or tutorial on how to do this?
Any thoughts or ideas you may have would be greatly appreciated and thanks so much for your time.
-Julie
Any thoughts or ideas you may have would be greatly appreciated and thanks so much for your time.
-Julie
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