Epidata: apply the same value labels and validity checks to many variables
Hi,
Often, one uses questionnaires where the items and a value labels might be identical for dozens or more questions. It seems that EpiData creates a block in the .CHK file that applies to one variable only. Is there a way to apply the same checks and labels to several variables at the same time?
I appreciate that one can go into a text editor and copy the block as many times as necessary and then changing the variable names. it would be great if one could use syntax similar to SPSS or Stata where information can be applied to a variable list such as VAR001-VAR010 the same way it is applied to individual variables.
Thanks!
John LeBlanc __________________________________________________________
John C. LeBlanc, MD, MSc, FRCPC Associate Professor Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Community Health and Epidemiology Dalhousie University
IWK Health Centre Work phone: (902) 470-8930 5850 University Avenue Work fax: (902) 470-6913 Halifax, Nova Scotia Email: John.LeBlanc@Dal.Ca B3K 6R8 CANADA Pager: (902) 470-8888 __________________________________________________________
Check out the USE command in the help file for EpiData (under check, command reference). You can do quite a bit to help out, including setting up value labels that can be used by different .REC files. I did this when EpiData first came out and always have value labels for Y/N/DK and sex (M/F)
Jamie
epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca wrote:
Hi,
Often, one uses questionnaires where the items and a value labels might be identical for dozens or more questions. It seems that EpiData creates a block in the .CHK file that applies to one variable only. Is there a way to apply the same checks and labels to several variables at the same time?
I appreciate that one can go into a text editor and copy the block as many times as necessary and then changing the variable names. it would be great if one could use syntax similar to SPSS or Stata where information can be applied to a variable list such as VAR001-VAR010 the same way it is applied to individual variables.
Thanks!
John LeBlanc __________________________________________________________
John C. LeBlanc, MD, MSc, FRCPC Associate Professor Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Community Health and Epidemiology Dalhousie University
IWK Health Centre Work phone: (902) 470-8930 5850 University Avenue Work fax: (902) 470-6913 Halifax, Nova Scotia Email: John.LeBlanc@Dal.Ca B3K 6R8 CANADA Pager: (902) 470-8888 __________________________________________________________
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