March 2016 - EpiData-list - University of Manitoba Mailing Lists

Jumps in Epidata Entry
by epidata-list＠lists.umanitoba.ca 15 Jul '26

15 Jul '26

Dear list, I have two questions regarding Jumps in EpiData Entry. 1) I want to jump to variable v10 if de score for v8 is 1 to 7. Of course this works: v8 RANGE 1 9 COMMENT LEGAL USE oplcat JUMPS 1 v10 2 v10 3 v10 4 v10 5 v10 6 v10 7 v10 END MUSTENTER END Is a shorter syntax possible and if so, how? 2) Is it possible to make a jump defination that depends on the value entered in a previous question? For example: After entering the value for variable v5 I want to jump to v8 if the answer on question v3=1. Kind Regards, Pieter van Groenestijn The Netherlands

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fill fields from COMMENT LEGAL file
by epidata-list＠lists.umanitoba.ca 15 Jul '26

15 Jul '26

I'm studying the copydata example to learn how to extract several variables from a file identified in a COMMENT LEGAL statement. In A3.chk, the statement "TYPE COMMENT atransfer" appears. What is atransfer? I don't see where it has been defined as a variable and I don't find it as a system variable. Further, the program seems to be parsing the string in atransfer according to the position of punctuation. Where is the format of this string defined? Perhaps to be a bit more explicit: I have file with a list of CHWs: District, Village, CHW name and a survey conducted by the CHWs. As the data is entered for the survey, I'd like to present pick lists to facilitate entry. The data is quite strictly hierarchical: Villages occur within Districts, an CHWs live in villages. Thank you,

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SAS export
by EpiData development and support 17 Mar '16

17 Mar '16

Hi all, I have a problem with SAS export in Epidata manager (v2.0.8.56). The SAS program generated by the software is unable to read the CSV file created. In other words, the program is written to import fixed column file and The CSV is comma separated. Has anybody a solution to fix the problem? (Except rewriting the SAS program to fit the datafile format) Thanks, Jean-Marc VIRION Service d'Épidémiologie & Évaluation Cliniques Centre d'Épidémiologie Clinique, CIC-EC Inserm CHRU de Nancy

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EpiData question / help
by EpiData development and support 08 Mar '16

08 Mar '16

HI I am accustomed to using JUMP when the 'jump to' questions are the next (consecutive) questions. IS there a way to use JUMP or something else to 'jump to' a future question ? For example, here is the order of the questions : Q1 Age Q2 Status 1=Self 2=Other Q3 Gender 1=Female 2=Male Q4 Systolic blood pressure Q5 Diastolic blood pressure Q6 Height Q7 Weight JUMP if Q2=1 then Jump to Q4 (the order Q2, Q3, Q4) if Q2=2 then Jump to Q6 (the order Q2, Q3, Q6) Thank you.

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