Your best bet may be to use a program like DBMSCopy. While it is one thing to transfer a data file (and variable labels) from SPSS to SAS, SAS manages value labels in a fundamentally different way than SPSS thus according to those I have spoken with there is no clear way to transfer value labels from SPSS to SAS.

HTH, John

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> From: Christian Schmidhauser <schmidhauser@BRUNNERHESS.CH> > Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 10:30:58 +0200 > Subject: Data transfer SPSS to SAS > To: SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU > Reply-To: Christian Schmidhauser <schmidhauser@BRUNNERHESS.CH> > > Hi, > Is there a way to save a SPSS data file in SAS format keeping variable and > value labels? I tried to install the SAS Universal ODBC driver in SPSS, > hoping to be able to write something like a 'save translate' command. > However, this driver does not work for me. I am using SPSS 10.1. > Any help for data transfers between SPSS and SAS would be appreciated. > Christian > > ******************************************** > Christian Schmidhauser > brunner und hess software ag > Postfach, 8027 Zuerich > mailto:schmidhauser@brunnerhess.ch > Tel +41-1-286 20 30 > Fax +41-1-286 20 31 >

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