jamovi

Hello,

I would like to import a dataset from Stata in which many variables are numerical but represent categorical variables, and with labels attached to give them meaning (see the screenshot example). When I open the data into Jamovi, all the labels are stripped away.

Is there a way to bring the labels in as well somehow?

Thanks,
Tom

hi,

can you either attach here the stata file, or send it to contact <at> jamovi.org?

the importing spss file pathway has been thoroughly tested, but stata is less common, and so i won't be surprised if there's the odd issue there. if you can provide me with a file, i can try and figure out what's going on.

with thanks

jonathon

Many thanks Jonathon,

I will send a file by email - when I tried to attach the file, the forum gave me an error ("The extension dta is not allowed. The upload was rejected because the uploaded file was identified as a possible attack vector.").

Best,
Tom

yup, you could probably zip it up and attach, but email works too.

cheers

jonathon

Ok - see attached - thanks.

ah, so it looks like stata files have the level labels encoded *after* the data in the file ... spss files have them before, and our importer assumes that they come before ... i'll have to think of a way to handle both scenarios.

thanks for sharing this file with us

jonathon

hi,

thanks for reporting this, and for providing that file. i've made changes to our import procedure, and this will handle labels in stata files. i've taken a conservative approach, so there may still be situations where it doesn't import as expected, but i guess we'll see.

with thanks

jonathon

Hi Jonathon,

Just following up on this - for this to work, which version should I have? I'm running Version 1.2.27.0 right now.

Many thanks
Tom

hey, you'll need the 1.6.4 ... which i don't think we've released yet. we should push it out in the next couple of days. i think the cloud version is running 1.6.4, so you could try it there:

https://cloud.jamovi.org

cheers

jonathon

Many thanks for the quick response. I tried the cloud version and it worked perfectly!

Best,
Tom