Rafal wrote:
is there a way to impose certain restrictions on individual columns in a
Stata dataset? e.g., numeric values must be in the range [0,30] and
integers or, for a SSN column, character values must be of the format
XXX-XX-XXXX and, at the same time, must be of length 11. if they are
not, the user will be warned and the change/input rejected.
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Following up on Nick Cox' remarks:
It sounds as if you are talking about a program for entering data.
EpiData can do most of what you want, I think; it can be downloaded for
free from http://www.epidata.dk. Epidata lets you export data as a Stata
dataset.
Hope this helps
Svend
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