I gave it a try: - When the variable is NUMERIC (as it is the case in your file), missing (.) values appear at the end of the tabulation. When it is STRING, missing (.) values appear at the top of the tabulation as follows: var1S -------------------------------------------------------------------- var1S type: Texte majuscule Libellés des codes: libellé_var1s
manquant: 3/7 valeurs uniques: 4
tabulation: Freq. P.100 Valeur Libellé 3 42.9 . 1 14.3 1 1 1 14.3 2 2 2 28.6 3 3
var2N -------------------------------------------------------------------- var2N type: Numérique Libellés des codes: libellé_var1s
manquant: 3/7 fourchette: [2 ; 3] valeurs uniques: 3
tabulation: Freq. P.100 Valeur Libellé 3 42.9 2 2 1 14.3 3 3 3 42.9 .
Note: as shown in your example, there is a redundancy in the checkblock: the variable is controlled by a list if valid values ('label_ramde7'), AND there a Range command (0-10,98). As it is already controlled by the list, it is not useful to control it twice with 'Range - legal'. Choose either of the 2 control systems, remove the other one, and check again.
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-----Message d'origine----- De : epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca [mailto:epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca] Envoyé : mardi 28 mars 2006 00:00 À : epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca Objet : RE: [EpiData-list] second try: order of missing valuesindocument->codebook
That variable is a 2 digit number created with ## in the qes file.
Here's the rest of the info about the variable in the codebook:
type: Number value labels: label_ramde7 range/legal: 0-10,98
missing: 6/52 range: [3 ; 10] unique values: 8
epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca wrote: What kind of variable is it? This shouldn't happen id the variable is numeric.
-----Message d'origine----- De : epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca [mailto:epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca] Envoyé : vendredi 24 mars 2006 23:40 À : epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca Objet : [EpiData-list] second try: order of missing values indocument->codebook
Didn't hear from anyone, so I'm trying again (sorry).
I have been creating a dataset using epidata. I was looking through the documentation->codebook to get a sense of the distribution ofvalues for thevariables. I just noticed that the missing values (.) appear at an almost random point in the otherwise ordered list (in this example,between 9 and 10). I compared the codebook with SAS tables and the data appear to be correct.
tabulation: Freq. Pct. Value Label 2 3.8 3 1 1.9 4 2 3.8 5 6 11.5 7 7 13.5 8 7 13.5 9 6 11.5 . 21 40.4 10
Any ideas why this might happen?
thanks.
Richard Herrell NIH
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