* VLS95_98.SPSS, Merge 1995 through 1998 VLS data.
title 'VLS95_98' .
* Vietnam Longitudinal Survey, 1995 through 1998.
* This program will work on a PC or UNIX.
* Store this program file, and the the vls95.por, vls96.por, vls97.por, vls98.por 
* in the same directory.
* This will create a .sav file with all of the variables for all of the years.

* Documentation and data from following sites .
* http://csde.washington.edu/csde/vietnam/documents.html .
* http://csde.washington.edu/csde/vietnam/data.html .
* This program converts an spss portable file to SPSS.

** The following files have been corrected - by .
** Sang Le Than and Patty Glynn .

match files 
      file = 'v:\new_vls\public\vn95p_corr.sav' 
      file = 'v:\new_vls\public\vn96p_corr.sav' 
      file = 'v:\new_vls\public\vn97p_corr.sav' 
      file = 'v:\new_vls\public\vn98p_corr.sav'  /
      by icasenum / map .

file label 'Created by vn95_98, match corrected 95-98 VLS' .
document  'Created by vn95_98, May 2002, 
  See http://csde.washington.edu/research/vietnam/ for more information'.
execute .

save   outfile = 'v:\new_vls\public\vls95_98.sav' .
export outfile = 'v:\new_vls\public\vls95_98.por' .
execute .