Stata Spss. Spss is a statistics software package which is mostly used for interactive statistical analysis in the form of batches. Besides it also supports different operating systems such as windows mac os and linux.
Using spss spss can read stata data files. We select the gss2018 sav dataset and get we can now import all the data or only a subset. Spss abbreviated as statistical package for social sciences was developed by ibm an american multinational corporation in the year 1968.
Using the pull down menus select file open data and then for files of type select the appropriate data file type.
Spss supports stata data files and can easily save an spss file as a stata file through the point and click interface or syntax. It is widely used for statistical analysis. Spss has licensed software that can be used as trial ware or saas software as a service. Using the pull down menus select file then save as and then for save as type select the type of stata file needed.