Hi! I have had 2 date related vaiables called "datebase1" and "datebase2" in EpiData. When exported them into STATA, they are showing as "datebase" and "datebase" and both variables contain the same value now which is not correct.
It might be due to the total number of characters for the variable name, but my question is how can I fix it?
Best regards ziad
In the export function to Stata there is an Option you can chose...you need to chose Stata version 8 (or higher) then variable names do not get truncated to 8 characters. I think that will work Marcel
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Hi! I have had 2 date related vaiables called "datebase1" and "datebase2" in EpiData. When exported them into STATA, they are showing as "datebase" and "datebase" and both variables contain the same value now which is not correct.
It might be due to the total number of characters for the variable name, but my question is how can I fix it?
Best regards ziad
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