Hello,
hopefully someone of you can help me with the following:
i want to read in a ascii-dataset of a structure like this:
104525300010 9064496 022 999929912
204525300010 9064496 1:19 59 22 2:4 0 96 3:8 0 92 4:0 33 67
204525300010 9064496 6:30 50 20 7:78 5 17
104525300010 9081400 023 23131122
104525300020 7 332321332 06 00 05 2264
104525300020 8 221211121 06 00 09 1889
104525300020 8 222222222 06 00 08 4705
104525300020 8 231211222 06 00 06 4585
"2" in the first column means that this line belongs to the line before. column 31-39 include replies to 9 different questions. if it is a "9" this means, that in the following line there is a more specific answer to this question which is stored like this:
7:78 5 17 means "78% replied to question 7 with a "1", 5% replied to question 7 with a "2" and 17% replied to question 7 with a "3""
Then ":" signalizes that the answers to the question of the number before ":" will follow. How can i tell Stata this meaning of ":"? Maybe also a problem could be that the answers can be like "10 90 0" as well as like "15 15 70" or "5 5 90"?
Does anybody have an idea how to read in those dates?
Many thanks!
Barbara Hofmann
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