Automatic Unique Identifier and Double Entry Verification Mode - EpiData-list

20 Sep 2013

      Dear Jan and all Listers,
I am sorry for not providing detailed information earlier.
Well, I am using EpiData 3.1, and extract of the check file is provided at
the end.
I wished to do data validation using the Double Entry Verification mode,
but when I used an automatically generated unique identifier for
the records using three fields(district,school and student) it could not
prompt for correction even when there was discordance.
The key-field I selected *to prepare for double entry verification* was '*
UNIQUE*'.  However, when I selected key-field as '*STUDENT*' there was
prompting for discordance. And yet student number alone may not uniquely
identify records in the data set.
What is the solution?
DISTRICT
  COMMENT LEGAL USE label_district
  MUSTENTER
  REPEAT
  TYPE COMMENT
END
SCHOOL
  MUSTENTER
  REPEAT
END
SCHNAME
  MUSTENTER
  REPEAT
END
STUDENT
  RANGE 1 100
  MUSTENTER
  AFTER ENTRY
   UNIQUE=DISTRICT+"-"+SCHOOL+"-"+STUDENT
  END
END
UNIQUE
    KEY UNIQUE
    NOENTER
    TYPE STATUSBAR "DIST-SCH-STD=" GREEN
END
GENDER
  LEGAL
    1
    2
  END
  COMMENT LEGAL USE label_gender SHOW
  MUSTENTER
  TYPE COMMENT
END
AGE
  RANGE 10 50
  MUSTENTER
END
M1
  LEGAL
    0
    1
  END
  MUSTENTER
END
M2
  LEGAL
    0
    1
  END
  MUSTENTER
END
Kizito.
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Re: Automatic Unique Identifier and Double Entry  Verification
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Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 20:11:54 +0200
From: epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca
Subject: Re: [EpiData-list] Automatic Unique Identifier and Double
        Entry   Verification Mode
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Dear Kizito:
It is a good rule to provide complete information before requesting
assistance.  Your message is non-informative about the software
Does your question concern:

EpiData Entry 3.1?
EpiData Manager, and if so which version?
If you use EpiData Entry 3.1, could you show the part of the check

file that controls the field?
Without this information, one cannot answer.
Hans
On 18-Sep-13 11:19, epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca wrote:
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Dear Listers,
sorry I am asking this again, since I received no help yet.
I wanted to do data validation using the Double Entry Verification mode,
but when I used an automatically generated unique identifier for the
records using three field it could not prompt for correction even when
there was discordance.
What is the solution?
Kizito
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