Date:         Mon, 19 Mar 2001 15:32:55 -0800
Reply-To:     Ron Smith <rsmith@PCC.EDU>
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Comments:     To: Frances Peck <FRANCES.PECK@ASU.EDU>
From:         Ron Smith <rsmith@PCC.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Institutional Characteristics
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At 03:54 PM 03/19/2001 -0700, Frances Peck wrote:

>
> Does anyone have any experience with the Institutional characteristics files
> at <http://nces.ed.gov/Ipeds/ic.html>http://nces.ed.gov/Ipeds/ic.html and
> SPSS? There is a SAS file, but I cannot seem to get syntax set up in SPSS
> that will work. Thought I would check with the list and see if anyone else
> has set up the syntaz file to import the dat file into SPSS before I hand
> mark each of the 1335 record positions! Thanks in advance.


on the NCES site, there is a link that will take you to the list of files
associated with the IC files.  There are a couple of files
that should enable you to read it into  Access.   Once there, you could
probably export it to Excel or to a dbf file and read it into SPSS

Ron
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Ronald Smith
Research Evaluation Coordinator
Institutional Research
Portland Community College
P. O. Box 19000, Portland, OR  97280-0990
Tel: (503) 614-7706; Fax: (503) 645-0894
rsmith@pcc.edu
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