Hi Kristine,
If you are entering data into split files and you make changes to the value list options frequently, I think it is also a good idea to store value lists in separate .rec files as then you can link all your split files to the same lists and only have to update once for each change. Of course this only works if you are on a network or all files are on the one computer.
Charity
Charity Jenkins Data Processing Officer Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer The Cancer Council Victoria http://www.cancervic.org.au/cbrc
On 2/28/07, epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca wrote:
Epi-Data users:
What strategies have you used to get around the limitation of only being able to input the data on one computer? We are thinking of splitting the file into two - with Type A respondents in one file/on one computer and Type B respondents in another file/on a different computer and then combining the resulting datasets in Stata. Will this work? Are there other/better strategies?
Thanks, Kristine Hopkins khopkins@prc.utexas.edu