Dear Statalist,
I am having a problem infiling an id variable using a dictionary that was
created by the data extraction software for the ECLS. My dictionary file
that is called by the do file is given below. All of the variables are
read in correctly, except CHILDID, which has no observations. This is the
only string variable in the dataset. I have no idea what the problem might
be.
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dictionary using "C:/Meat_Stuff/DATA/child.dat" {
_lines(3)
_column(1) str8 CHILDID %8s "CHILD IDENTIFICATION NUMBER"
_column(17) long F1CLASS %1f "F1 CHILD PROGRAM TYPE FROM FMS("
_column(18) long F2CLASS %2f "F2 CHILD PROGRAM TYPE FROM FMS("
_column(56) long GENDER %2f "CHILD COMPOSITE GENDER"
_column(58) long RACE %2f "CHILD COMPOSITE RACE"
_column(60) double R1_KAGE %5.2f "R1 COMPOSITE CHILD ASSESSMENT A"
_column(832) long P1FIRKDG %2f "P1 FIRST-TIME KINDERGARTENER"
_column(958) long WKSESQ5 %1f "WK CATEGORICAL SES MEASURE"
_column(1025) long S2KPUPRI %2f "S2 PUBLIC OR PRIVATE SCHOOL"
}
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Thank you in advance.
DVM
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