Stata and labelled non-integers

[dusadrian]

There are two closed issues containing that Stata only support labelled integers. I tested that, and it does not seem to be the case. First, generated a data frame and exported to SPSS:

x1 <- labelled_spss(c(1.1, 1:10), c(Good = 1, Bad = 8), na_range = c(9, Inf),
                     label = "Quality rating")
write_sav(data.frame(X = x1), "test.sav")

Then converted the SPSS file to Stata .dta using StatTransfer. Then read the .dta file in Stata/IC version 12, and the following appears:

                  type:  numeric (float)
                 label:  x, but 7 nonmissing values are not labeled

                 range:  [1,8]                        units:  .1
         unique values:  9                        missing .:  2/11

            tabulation:  Freq.   Numeric  Label
                             1         1  good
                             1       1.1  
                             1         2  
                             1         3  
                             1         4  
                             1         5  
                             1         6  
                             1         7  
                             1         8  bad
                             2         .  

It appears not to be true that "Stata only supports labelled integers", but a problem with readstat.

[batpigandme]

Linking to cross post on community here.

[dusadrian]

Thanks, the newest version 2.1.0 no longer throws this error, instead it checks whether labelled values are integers.

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