Dear All, I am bringing to your kind attention one more and last problem. Hopefully this will be looked into before the release of ver 2 of Epidata Analysis. I have a sample database of distribution of illness according to the socio- economic status in the population. The socio- economic status is divided into 1,2 and 3 classes. The sample SES.pgm is listed below..

*SES.PGM CLS CLOSE SET ECHO=OFF READ "D:\EPIDATA\SES\SES.REC" TYPE "\LTABLE SHOWING ILLNESS IN THE SES CLASS 1" SELECT SES=1 TABLES SEX ILLNESS SELECT

TYPE "\LTABLE SHOWING ILLNESS IN THE SES CLASS 2" SELECT SES=2 TABLES SEX ILLNESS SELECT

TYPE "\LTABLE SHOWING ILLNESS IN THE SES CLASS 3" SELECT SES=3 TABLES SEX ILLNESS SELECT *END OF PGM

When I run the PGM, following output is generated.

TABLES SHOWING ILLNESS IN THE SES CLASS 1 Sex Illness F M Total N 2 1 3 Y 0 3 3 Total 2 4 6 TABLES SHOWING ILLNESS IN THE SES CLASS 2 No data! Operation aborted

Since there is no data in the socio-economic class 2, the PGM “aborts the operation”. The rest of the PGM is not processed. I am attaching a sample SES.ZIP containing the necessary qes, chk and rec files. The latest test ver 2 (build 112b) of Epi Analysis was used.

If this feature is looked into, large PGMs can be run without sny break. Is there any solution of this problem?

Dr. Shavinder Singh