October 2025 - 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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simultaneous data entry in the same file
by EpiData support and user community 14 Oct '25

14 Oct '25

Caution! This message was sent from outside the University of Manitoba. Hello. I'm contemplating Epidata as a tool for an ongoing project of operational data entry (monthly volumes/census of different types of clinic visits at a facility) in which several different staff members would be entering the data relevant to their section of the clinic (TB, STD, etc.) The facility does not have an electronic medical record, or any other platform from which these data could be extracted in automated fashion. Currently each staff member is typing numbers into a massive shared spreadsheet on their networK (ugh!). If I set up a single, shared, Epidata .rec file in that same network location, could several staff members be editing it (adding records) simultaneously? It would be rare by sheer chance, but it could happen. No two staffers would ever be editing the same existing record. Alternatively, if each staffer had their own .rec file pertaining to their activities, I suppose I could, each month, APPEND them into my "working" total file, from which I would derive my summaries (probably by exporting and running some R code)? Advice and suggestions welcome. Thanks. --Chris Ryan Binghamton, NY, US

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/Save command error solution
by EpiData support and user community 08 Oct '25

08 Oct '25

Caution! This message was sent from outside the University of Manitoba. Thank Jamie for the response. It was a part of long command given below. BAR V10a /By=v3 /PCT /Legend /Frame /Hgrid /Vgrid /SizeX=1200 /SizeY=900 /Ti="" /Sub="" /Fn="" /Xtext="Association of Overweight and obesity among Female adolescents with Mother's Literacy Status" /Ytext="Percents" /Fontsize=14 /Edit /save /Replace It worked today. The version on the download page is V2.2 Rel. 3 (Build 187) You have mentioned Epidata Analysis version 2.2.3.237 Is it a new a new build of Classical Epidata Analysis? Is Classical Epidata Analysis development still going on? Please repond whenver you can. With regards, Shavinder Singh version 2.2.3.237

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/save command in Classical Epidata Analysis ver 2.2.2.187 displays error message,
by EpiData support and user community 03 Oct '25

03 Oct '25

Caution! This message was sent from outside the University of Manitoba. Dear Epidata Team, When I use “/save” command to save the graph produced in Classical Epidata Analysis ver 2.2.2.187, e.g. /save=”MyGraph.wmf” The following error message is displayed; save : Unknown Command Any solution ! Dr. Shavinder Singh

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