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Re: st: How to cope with string when transfrom from Epidata to Stata


From   Jia Xiangping <[email protected]>
To   statalist <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: How to cope with string when transfrom from Epidata to Stata
Date   Thu, 13 Oct 2005 21:52:22 +0800

If -encode- is applied, only categorical variables are given


On 10/13/05, Jia Xiangping <[email protected]> wrote:
1) did you |
apply for a |
  credit in |
       2004 |      Freq.     Percent        Cum.
------------+-----------------------------------
          1 |        296       87.83       87.83
          2 |         41       12.17      100.00
------------+-----------------------------------
      Total |        337      100.00

After recode to 1 and 0, then label define and label value. Is that
too troublesome? If yes, strongly recommend others don't use "Boolean"
when Epidata is used to input data.







> Dear all,
>
> When data were input from questionnaires, epidata (version3.1) was
> used. One question, as "Did you applied credit last year", was set as
> "Boolean (yes/no)" in Epidata. But when data was exported to Stata
> 8.2, the result is very frustrating:
>
> -des v1, detail-
>
>                        storage   display     value
> variable name    type       format      label      variable label
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> v1                      str1           %1s                 1) did you
> apply for a credit
>                                                                        in 2004
>
> -sum v1, detail-
>
>            1) did you apply for a credit in 2004
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> no observations
>
> -list v1-
>
>  +----+
>     | v1 |
>     |----|
>  1. |  N |
>  2. |  N |
>  3. |  N |
>  4. |  N |
>  5. |  N |
>     |----|
>  6. |  N |
>  7. |  N |
>  8. |  N |
>  9. |  N |
>  10. |  N |
>     |----|
>  11. |  N |
>  12. |  N |
>  13. |  N |
>  14. |  N |
>  15. |  N
>
> What I need is just a binary variable. Must I have to transform it to
> numerical variable firstly and then label variables and values again
> manually? Are there any other ways I can apply?
>
> If I could foresee this problem, I would have defined variable v1 as
> just numerical type in Epidata instead of "Boolean".
>
>
> --
> Xiangping JIA
>
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