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Help With Datasets

Tips and Guide for Dataset Users

Frequently Asked Questions About Data

• How do I decompress the files I download from your site?

• What kind of documentation do you provide, and in what formats?

• What is a codebook?

• What kind of data formats does the archive distribute? Do you have SPSS Portable files? SAS transport? Stata?

• How do I interpret a record from an ASCII data file?

• I have no experience creating setup files for statistical packages. How do I load the data into the program?

• How do I use a SAS setup file to import ASCII data?

• How do I use an SPSS setup file to import ASCII data?

• How do I use a Stata setup file to import ASCII data?