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Re EpiData notes file
by epidata-list＠lists.umanitoba.ca 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

Thanks to everyone who responded to my plea for help. Suzanna Vidmar Senior Research Officer Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit Murdoch Childrens Research Institute Royal Children's Hospital Flemington Road Parkville Victoria 3052 Australia telephone: +61 3 9345 6372 facsimile: +61 3 9345 6000 email: suzanna.vidmar(a)mcri.edu.au www.mcri.edu.au <http://www.mcri.edu.au/>

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EpiData Notes file
by epidata-list＠lists.umanitoba.ca 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

Can anyone help with this? We set up an EpiData database with a notes file <filename>.not. The notes file appears to have corrupted and has taken the qualitative data from over 40 surveys with it. I was wondering if there was any way I could recover this or if I'll need to re-enter all the data manually into a word document. To help work out what/where/if something went wrong with EpiData the breakdown of events is as follows: * First ~45 surveys are entered without issue. * From ~survey 45 when the notes file opened up it would not allow me to type unless I pressed enter a few times and then backspace (pressing enter once and backspace once would create space for two characters to be typed). It was cumbersome but the data was still going in alright. * On closing the notes file whilst entering survey 60 the computer froze for a moment and EpiData was 'not responding' for about 20-30 seconds and then went back to normal functioning. * The next time the notes file was opened the cursor appeared about halfway through the qualitative data for survey 19 and all data after there had been wiped. I opened the notes file in notepad to confirm this was the case. Do you know of some recovery technique for this kind of problem? Thanks, Suzanna Vidmar Senior Research Officer Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit Murdoch Childrens Research Institute Royal Children's Hospital Flemington Road Parkville Victoria 3052 Australia telephone: +61 3 9345 6372 facsimile: +61 3 9345 6000 email: suzanna.vidmar(a)mcri.edu.au www.mcri.edu.au <http://www.mcri.edu.au/>

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How to define Jumps at a variable using another variable
by epidata-list＠lists.umanitoba.ca 12 Aug '10

12 Aug '10

Hi all, Please help me on how I can define this jumps. Variable a04 is exact age of respondent while variable a06 is another question. Variable a06 is only applicable to respondents whose age range is 0-18 otherwise a jump is required to variable a08. This is what I have done below but I keep getting error message. Kindly help on how I can achieve the jumps. Thank you. Bola Adedoyin (Mrs) DC Pro-Data Consult Lagos, Nigeria a06 BEFORE ENTRY define tempv # IF a04 RANGE 0 18 THEN tempv=1 ELSE tempv=2 ENDIF tempv JUMPS 2 a08 END END END END

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Help - Merging parent and child file into a single file
by epidata-list＠lists.umanitoba.ca 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

Hi all, Please how can I make parent and child datafile merge into one single file when converting the data to SPSS. Thank you. Bola Nigeria

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Design decision for Data Entry Client
by epidata-list＠lists.umanitoba.ca 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

Development of the stand alone Data Entry Client is progressing and we need to take some decisions. In short the revised setup will be such that a project manager person will use the EpiData Data Manager to define data files, to document file contents etc. whereas the actual data entry will be done with a dedicated Entry Client, which can only do entry. On the list it was suggested earlier that it is important that the entry persons can get a quick overview, e.g. by data lists, spreadsheet view of the data or a codebook. We will look at this later. I invite you all to discuss and comment on the following aspects: a. Show field names on entry form. Could be either: A1 Be part of the data file definition (sort of built into the datafile) A2: Defined via an ini file for the client I tend to think that this is part of the project managers decision, and therefore it should be A1, but I am not sure. Currently this is NOT part of the data file definition, but part of the ini file for the Manager . . b. When the Entry Client opens a data file, which record should be shown ? b1. The first one b2. The last one b3. An empty "new" record - ready for entry (as in current EpiData Entry) Would depend on the project. I suggest we decide on b2. This shows how far entry is and the user can then issue a specific action to continue adding (e.g. ctrl+N). We can always discuss later if some of this could be controlled by commands or specifications, but a default must be defined now. Regards Jens Lauritsen EpiData Association

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Re: EpiData-list Digest, Vol 82, Issue 6
by epidata-list＠lists.umanitoba.ca 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

Thanks Hans and Jamie. Your suggestion worked for me. Regards, Bola --- On Mon, 9/8/10, epidata-list-request(a)lists.umanitoba.ca <epidata-list-request(a)lists.umanitoba.ca> wrote: From: epidata-list-request(a)lists.umanitoba.ca <epidata-list-request(a)lists.umanitoba.ca> Subject: EpiData-list Digest, Vol 82, Issue 6 To: epidata-list(a)lists.umanitoba.ca Date: Monday, 9 August, 2010, 10:00 Send EpiData-list mailing list submissions to epidata-list(a)lists.umanitoba.ca To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.umanitoba.ca/mailman/listinfo/epidata-list or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to epidata-list-request(a)lists.umanitoba.ca You can reach the person managing the list at epidata-list-owner(a)lists.umanitoba.ca When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of EpiData-list digest..." EpiData-list mailing list ___________________________________ Today's Topics: 1. Re: How to define Jumps at a variable using another variable (epidata-list(a)lists.umanitoba.ca) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 13:21:13 -0400 From: epidata-list(a)lists.umanitoba.ca Subject: Re: [EpiData-list] How to define Jumps at a variable using another variable To: epidata-list(a)lists.umanitoba.ca Message-ID: <BLU0-SMTP69AE1A89EB290445795DDAFD930(a)phx.gbl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii You should do this with GOTO as Hans suggests: a06 before entry if (a04 >=0 and a04 <=18) then goto a08 endif end end blocks that begin with a variable name cannot appear within the block for another variable. If you need to use the variable tempv elsewhere, then include this at the top of your check file before file define tempv # global end Jamie On 2010-08-05, at 7:25 AM, epidata-list(a)lists.umanitoba.ca wrote: > Variable a04 is exact age of respondent while variable a06 is another question. Variable a06 is only applicable to respondents whose age range is 0-18 otherwise a jump is required to variable a08. This is what I have done below but I keep getting error message. > > Kindly help on how I can achieve the jumps. > > Thank you. > > Bola Adedoyin (Mrs) > DC Pro-Data Consult > Lagos, Nigeria > > a06 > BEFORE ENTRY > define tempv # > IF a04 RANGE 0 18 THEN tempv=1 > ELSE tempv=2 > ENDIF > tempv > JUMPS > 2 a08 > END > END > END > END ------------------------------ ________________________________________ EpiData-list(a)lists.umanitoba.ca http://lists.umanitoba.ca/mailman/listinfo/epidata-list End of EpiData-list Digest, Vol 82, Issue 6 *******************************************

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Help: How to define Jumps at a variable using another variable
by epidata-list＠lists.umanitoba.ca 05 Aug '10

05 Aug '10

--- On Thu, 5/8/10, Bola Adedoyin <madedoyinng(a)yahoo.com> wrote: From: Bola Adedoyin <madedoyinng(a)yahoo.com> Subject: How to define Jumps at a variable using another variable To: epidata-list(a)lists.umanitoba.ca Date: Thursday, 5 August, 2010, 4:25 Hi all, Please help me on how I can define this jumps. Variable a04 is exact age of respondent while variable a06 is another question. Variable a06 is only applicable to respondents whose age range is 0-18 otherwise a jump is required to variable a08. This is what I have done below but I keep getting error message. Kindly help on how I can achieve the jumps. Thank you. Bola Adedoyin (Mrs) DC Pro-Data Consult Lagos, Nigeria a06 BEFORE ENTRY define tempv # IF a04 RANGE 0 18 THEN tempv=1 ELSE tempv=2 ENDIF tempv JUMPS 2 a08 END END END END

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help
by epidata-list＠lists.umanitoba.ca 03 Aug '10

03 Aug '10

Hello, I'm in the process of learning how to use EpiData Analysis. I'm going through the instructions in the Tiramisu example. I've run into a problem. I'm trying to create the epicruve/histogram. The graph window (Editing Chart) is not showing up. I looked through comments on the [EpiData-list] and found a recommendation: insert (set graph edit=on) in the command line. I tried this but received this message (graph edit not supported). How do I turn on the (editing chart) window? Thanks, Sandy

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Extending command over multiple lines
by epidata-list＠lists.umanitoba.ca 03 Aug '10

03 Aug '10

Is there a way of extending a command in the EpiData Entry CHK file beyond a single line? In my example below I've got around the problem by using nested IF... THENs but there may be another way. For instance in Stata a command can be extended over multiple lines by ending each line with ///. admit1mon AFTER ENTRY IF (admit1mon<>"JAN") AND (admit1mon<>"FEB") AND (admit1mon<>"MAR") AND (admit1mon<>"APR") AND (admit1mon<>"MAY") AND admit1mon<>"JUN") THEN IF (admit1mon<>"JUL") AND (admit1mon<>"AUG") AND (admit1mon<>"SEP") AND (admit1mon<>"OCT") AND (admit1mon<>"NOV") AND (admit1mon<>"DEC") THEN HELP "Month is a 3 character field, e.g. JAN, FEB, etc" TYPE=ERROR GOTO admit1mon CLEAR admit1mon ENDIF ENDIF END END Cheers, Suzanna Vidmar Senior Research Officer Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit Murdoch Childrens Research Institute Royal Children's Hospital Flemington Road Parkville Victoria 3052 Australia telephone: +61 3 9345 6372 facsimile: +61 3 9345 6000 email: suzanna.vidmar(a)mcri.edu.au www.mcri.edu.au <http://www.mcri.edu.au/>

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Thanks for your help
by epidata-list＠lists.umanitoba.ca 28 Jul '10

28 Jul '10

That was kind of tricky! Thank you! Greetings from Uruguay, -- Carlos Aloisio Área de Gestión y Evaluación del Estado Oficina de Planeamiento y Presupuesto Convención 1366. Piso 3 Teléfono: (5982) 9088023. Fax: (5982) 9000827 Montevideo - Uruguay

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