[EpiData-list] Re: EpiData-list Digest, Vol 53, Issue 6

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The TYPE COMMENT command is very useful to display the label associated with
an entered variable value during the data entry.
Example: go the checks file and select sex then click Edit.

Now edit the CHECK command as follow:

SEX
      TYPE COMMENT
       COMMENT LEGAL USE label_sex
  END
Accept and close then save; the label should appear when to try to enter
value for sex into the rec file.

Kind regards

Tieble




On 11/03/2008, epidata-list-request at lists.umanitoba.ca <
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> Ziad,
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> To show the labels while entering data is simple. Use the command show in
> the CHK file:
>
> sex
>   comment legal use label_sex show
> end
>
> When cursor is in the field a box with the options will appear. You may
> also
> use the "type" command to make the label to be seen after the fild has
> been
> filled.
>
> Unfortunatenly (or forntunately), Epidta does not have a multiuser mode
> such
> as in EPI6. So, when several digitizers work wiht the same file, from time
> to time, or at the end some one has to merge the files. Epidata does that.
> Epidata can merge the files side to side or end to end. I dont know
> exactly
> where it is because my menus are in portuguese. Look for something such as
> "combine datasets". It is intuitive and easy to use.
>
> In this process you have to be carefull not to delete observations in the
> dataset or a whole dataset and not to use duplicates (merge the same
> dataset
> twice). Most statistical softwares such as Stata and R have functions to
> find duplicates lines in the dataset.
>
> Best regards,
> Pedro Brasil
>
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