Often, it is easier to save your spreadsheet as a comma separated values csv or tabdelimited file, as most spreadsheet, database, and statistical programs can read these types of files directly. You can use stat transfer for convert a file from stata to excel. Select the workbook name from the to book list, click create a copy, and then click ok. What are the advantages of stata over excel and viceversa. One of the easiest methods for getting data into stata is using the stata data editor, which resembles an excel spreadsheet. Tabout into different sheets statalist the stata forum. A standard alternative format is a commaseparated file or commadelimited file with extension. Stata output is difficult to copy and paste into word or excel. I tried to export data from excel to spss, in the process the sheet that was read was the data dictionary. Build steps into your do files to export your stata results into word. Secondly, r allows the users to export the data into different types of files. Once you click data, the open data box will appear. The default is to save each dta file separately using the name of the corresponding excel file. Dear all, is it possible to save outputs to different sheets in the same excel file in stata.
Just go straight to saveto9 if the file is in stata 1012 format. Paste data into editor by selecting edit and clicking paste. There is no possibility of having multiple tabs in such a file. It cannot read in an excel spreadsheet with extension. This option can be used if the data is in excel, sas xport, or text format. One way is to import every sheet of every file manually until eternity. These programs can convert data from one file format into another file format. The program is a convenient tool to import and convert more than one excel file andor worksheet at a time. Here is a tutorial on how to import data from an excel file in stata 14.
Apr 10, 2016 here is a tutorial on how to import data from an excel file in stata 14. Xls, xlsx, and xlsm subcommands output export command. If youre not required to import from excel directly, maybe try opening the file in excel, saving the sheet as a. Importing data into spss from excel easy spss tutorial. Id probably pick stata but im biased as i enjoy stata and am still learning r. How to import excel file with multiple sheets into stata. Once in excel, select the table, copy it ctrlc or edit copy and paste it into the stata editor by clicking in the data editor icon mark by the red arrow below or by typing edit in the command window. Some statistical packages have commands that can read excel files e. Now i cant see the other sheets and opening the excel workbook, the sheets ate all missing. To illustrate how this is accomplished we have an excel file named hospital. Importing chinese characters from excel to stata stack overflow.
Converting excel and other spreadsheet files dbmscopy can be used to convert spreadsheets from excel and similar programs to many other formats. The file formats youll see vary, depending on what type of sheet is active in your workbook a worksheet, chart sheet, or other type of sheet. Stata expects one matrix or table of data from one sheet, with at most one line of text at the start defining the contents of the columns. Exploring results of nonparametric regression models dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models for policy analysis. Select file import excel spreadsheet from statas menus. Enter data in rows and columns or read in a previously saved file. Data processing, excel, spss statistics, statistical analysis, statistics. Then i want to import the data into stata to do the regression. How do we consolidate all sheets in all files into one data file.
Is there a quick way to format panel data in excel or stata. The stata blog export tabulation results to excelupdate. Excel files often contain header and footer information in the first few and last few rows of a sheet, and you may not want that information loaded. Ideally, converting the file from excel format to the format of your preferred statistical package will be done by a program as well. Inputting your data into stata stata learning modules. The actual developer of the program is statacorp lp. Names longer than 8 characters and such names as all. Instructional video explaining how to open data files and import data into stata, data analysis and statistical software.
Jul 27, 2010 dear all, is it possible to save outputs to different sheets in the same excel file in stata. I urgently need your help on how to retrieve the lost sheets. Statas import excel or sass proc import so you can include. Jun 07, 2018 chris did an excellent job updating tab2xl and coding tab2docx, making it easier for you to create tables for inclusion in a word file. I want to merge the data from sheet 2 and 3 according to the cusisp of the first sheet.
Apr 26, 2020 secondly, r allows the users to export the data into different types of files. From your description it seems that your data looks like the following may be instead of value1960, value1990 your variable names are 1960, 1990 etc. Excel was able to open the file by repairing or removing the unreadable content then it lists a couple tables but one of the tables doesnt exist in the workbook so i am unsure what it is referencing. I need to convert 1415 stata version file into excel format. Select the workbook name from the to book list, click create a. By default, the program recogonizes the last word from the formulated variable names as the time indicator. Stata needs to read a file in a format not mentioned above. It will return a local for the number of sheets in your file, and you can then use a forval loop to load and save these sheets. How can i read data from multiple excel sheets in stata. Overall, it is not difficult to export data from r.
In the files of type box, you need to select excel see 1 above, though obviously things will look slightly different if youre using a mac. In this tutorial, you will learn export to hard drive. Names for stata datasets are derived from the names of the excel files. How to get information from excel into stata stata can directly import data from excel both. Stata s import excel or sass proc import so you can include those commands along with the rest of your code. Select file import excel spreadsheet from stata s menus. Apr 21, 2020 statacorp is a leading developer in statistical software, primarily through its flagship product stata. Highlight the data of interest, and then select edit and click copy. R exporting data to excel, csv, sas, stata, text file. Then navigate to the folder that contains your excel file, and youll see your excel file pop up. As not all firms introduced antitakeover provisions, the first sheet does not have all cusips of sheet 2 and 3.
The reason is that if the excel file is too big to import, stata cannot import any subset e. After that you can then mergeappend these sheets depending on what is necessary. In the file name box, accept the suggested name or type a. Column headings should all be unique and not start with a number. If you want to do this as a loop, use the import excel, describe option. Our antivirus check shows that this download is clean. By default, writetable writes the table variable names as column headings in the spreadsheet file. To import the data into stata, start stata and use the following command. Aug 14, 2015 i found excel is good for quick and simple data storage, transfer, sorting on multiple items, or just simple visual analysis, but only on for relatively small number of variables and entries. Write table t to the first sheet in a new spreadsheet file named patientdata. Not only is stata output difficult to format, you will probably need to run your code many times, and you wont want to repeat this step over and over again. For example, they could directly create a stata file from an excel spreadsheet, a lotus spreadsheet, an access database, a dbase database, a sas data file, an spss system file, etc.
It is useful when your data is on paper and needs to be typed in, or if your data is already typed into an excel spreadsheet. To specify the portion of the worksheet you want to write to, use the range namevalue pair argument. I found excel is good for quick and simple data storage, transfer, sorting on multiple items, or just simple visual analysis, but only on for relatively small number of variables and entries. Use saveold if using stata to save the file in stata 12 format and then use saveto9. Sep 17, 2015 instructional video explaining how to open data files and import data into stata, data analysis and statistical software. Stata is a suite of applications used for data analysis, data management, and graphics. We wish the answer would be, with a wave of a wand unfortunately, we are muggles. And although excel works nicely with csv files, csv files are in no way specific to excel. This is despite of the fact that substr turns into blue in the do file confirming. To illustrate how this is accomplished we have an excel file named.
On the command line, you can open a stata dataset by typing use filename and hitting return. I suppose this probably makes sense if stata has to load the entire excel file in order to find some subset when stata initially inspects the file it is either too big or not. Dlab stata cheatsheet chris kennedy university of california, berkeley january 2016 in progress 1. A stata or earlier data file needs to be read by spss. Pivot table rows, columns, and cells are exported as excel rows, columns, and cells, with all formatting attributes intact for example, cell borders, font styles, and background colors. Each excel file corresponds to one region and within each file are sheets corresponding to the province in the region. Stata for windows, mac, and linux can directly import data and export data and results to microsoft excel files. Easily mass save each sheet as a separate pdftextcsv file or workbook in excel normally we can save active worksheet as a separate. I would recommend looking into putexcel, which is a command in stata which allows you to export tables fairly easily and which will allow you to specify which sheet of a workbook you would like to export to.
I have tried repairing the file and it allows me to open the file but it removes formulasformattingpivot tables. Statacorp is a leading developer in statistical software, primarily through its flagship product stata. Click the arrow in the save as type box and pick the type of text or csv file format you want. Used by professional researchers for more than 30 years, stata provides everything for. Chris did an excellent job updating tab2xl and coding tab2docx, making it easier for you to create tables for inclusion in a word file. Stata can read in some other types of data file than a stata dataset. Normally you tell stata what data set you want to use with the use command, but if the data set is an excel spreadsheet, use import excel instead. But kutools for excels split workbook utility can help you easily save each workbook as separate pdftextcsv file or workbook in excel. Stata 12s new import excel command can help you easily import realworld excel files into stata. Start stata and open the data editor type edit at the stata dot prompt. The xls, xlsx, and xlsm subcommands export output in excel 972004, excel 2007 and higher, and excel 2007 and higher, macroenabled formats respectively. The sheet option allows us top specify from which sheet of the spreadsheet we want to read, and by appending the data together, we can read data from multiple sheets.
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