Translations:Exporting results/203/en

This export routine was created to facilitate rapid analysis of data collected with LimeSurvey. It creates an XML-file in STATAs proprietary format, which can be imported independent of the platform STATA is run on. Using this format offeres several advantages over importing plain CSV files:
 * Data sets are fully labelled including variable labels (question, subquestion) and value labels (answers, if applicable).
 * Dates are already transformed to STATAs internal date format and thus can directly be used to calculate difference between days etc.
 * Variable names are, if necessary, converted to a STATA compatible format.
 * Data formats of variables (string, integer, float, etc.) are already set according to the underlying data. (No more numbers encoded as strings!).