2014 Wave3 (Life History) Not Stata format

[yufangfang]

Can anyone help to solve this problem?

[s6lizhuu]

what do you mean by it is not a stata format. it is in stata format for me.

[yufangfang]

what do you mean by it is not a stata format. it is in stata format for me.

when you open it with STATA, can STATA open it?
after I download it, the document can be open, however, STATA tells me that this file is not STATA format.

And I can not open the downloading website from my account profile, thus I download it from 'Data', the Menu Bar

[luxitanuo]

It is probably the software version problem. The 2014 data is formed by stata13 or higher version. If you try to open it using a lower version stata, it will say "not stata format". There are two ways to solve this problem. One is to update your stata software, and the other is to open the dataset using higher version stata and then save the dataset as an old version, the command is "saveold".

[yufangfang]

It is probably the software version problem. The 2014 data is formed by stata13 or higher version. If you try to open it using a lower version stata, it will say "not stata format". There are two ways to solve this problem. One is to update your stata software, and the other is to open the dataset using higher version stata and then save the dataset as an old version, the command is "saveold".

I can open it now.
:)
Thank you very much!