January 2022 - 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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BIG PROBLEMS TO UPDATE A CHK FILE
by EpiData development and support 03 Jan '22

03 Jan '22

We are changing year, so I am creating a "RU22.REC" with the root RU21.QES file (to replace the RU21.REC one) 1) The other years I went in RU21.CHK and renamed it RU22.CHK and it worked When I do this now, I have 3 pages of errors on CHK (which is exactly the same which works with RU21) quite impossible to correct 2) SECOND OPTION: I went on Epidata analysis and created without any problem RU22.rec Through the procedure SAVEDATA c:\data\RU22.REC. with an automatic transfer of the RU21.CHK to RU22.CHK BUT IT GIVES ME A VERTICAL QUESTIONNAIRE LIKE A VERY LONG SNAKE, VERY BAD TO MAKE A DATA RECORD HOW COULD I THROUGH THE "SAVEDATA" PROCEDURE HAVE AN HORIZONTAL (NORMAL) QUESTIONNAIRE Thank you very much for your help ALSO: HAPPY NEW YEAR Dr Pierre-Yves Robillard Réanimation néonatale et pediatrique, néonatologie Centre Hospitalier Régional Groupe Hospitalier Sud-Réunion BP 350. 97448 Saint-Pierre cedex Ile de la réunion

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