Hi Statalist!

I have a question regarding missing values using the (ssc) command usespss. When I use usespss to import a .sav file into Stata it converts the missing values to " .a " instead of the " . " when using import spss in Stata 16.

I was wondering if this is what's supposed to happen and if there's any way to avoid this. Not everyone in the research team I'm part of has Stata 16, and we need this import to be done directly through Stata, not a third-party software like Stat/Transfer. Hence it's necessary that we use this command.

Regards