Re: EpiData-list Digest, Vol 56, Issue 9
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Message: 1 Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:11:03 -0300 From: epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca Subject: [EpiData-list] Re: Edit qes and keeping chk commands To: epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca Message-ID: a37cfb5a0806131311g2b6f2e85w107e14f49b82a91c@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Dear Susan,
The tip here is never to change the variables names! You may add new variables, change the labels, change the variables places in the questionnaire. When U open the rec file, epidata will ask U to update the rec file and everything will be there. Bur if you change the variable name in the qes file, EpiData will undestand that U erased the variable and created a new one, and your data will be lost "for ever". :( The chk files follows the same principle. The name of the varible is what matters. If you want to change a varible name in a dataset wiht lots of observations then you should look in the tools menu. There is an option to change variables names.
Best regards, Pedro Emmanuel Brasil
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When I go back and edit an ques file add questions, etc. I want to retain the checks from the previous ques file, but incorporate new edits to ques file. How do I make data file w/o overwriting previous checks and/or creating new data file?
Susan
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-- Abraço forte e que a força esteja com você, Pedro Emmanuel
Message: 2 Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:18:51 +0200 (CEST) From: epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca Subject: [EpiData-list] Saving a CHK file when editing a QES file To: epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca Message-ID: 1841.83.250.109.61.1213438731.squirrel@www.asoles.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
When I go back and edit an ques file add questions, etc. I want to retain the checks from the previous ques file, but incorporate new edits to ques file. How do I make data file w/o overwriting previous checks and/or creating new data file?
Susan
Hi Susan,
In Epidata there are three main files associated to a data set: QES the design of the layout and properties of the questionnaire REC the data set itself CHK the definition of check controls during tha data entry
In order to Enter data you anly need two of them (REC and CHK).
If you edit a QES file and update the REC using the revised QES your check file will work if: The name of the new REC files is the same as the name of the CHK file. and The names of the fields in the REC file have not been changed. For example in the old file you have a field names SEX and you keep the same name in the new version. However if you change the name of the field to GENDER the CHK file will give you an error. (usually Epidata will ask you to display where the erros are located, what will help you to fix the problems)
I am not sure but I think there was an option in EpiData Entry to save the CHK file ate the same time that you are updating a REC file from a QES. Can some one comment on that?
Hope it helps,
Pedro Arias. Stockholm
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Susan Caplan, RN, MSN, FNP-BC Yale University PhD Student in Nursing
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