Combine 2 or more rec files together
Dear members of theEpiData-Mailing list,
I do my first steps with EpiData so please be tolerant with my disability. I just made some data entry when I recognized that I forgot to write down a variable in the qes-file. My way to handle the problem is to write a new qes-file than a new rec-file and start the data entry again from the beginning. But this can't be the accurate way, right? In your help-area I saw this hint here, but I really don't know how to find "Analysis" and I don't know, whether I can use this hint for my problem...
/Richard, // //You can use Analysis to merge the files. It's easy to do manually: // //// //cd c:\directory with the files // //read file1 // //append file2 // //append file3 // //* etc // //savedata mergefile // //close // //// //If your file names are always the same, you can put those commands into // //a .pgm file to do this. // /// It would be very great if you can answer me my question, thank you very much in advance! Some of my colleagues said that I can combine several rec-files by exporting them to SPSS and than copy and paste the content - I hope you can recommend me an easier way!
Greeting from Germany, Lea Dipper
make copies of your qes, rec, chk filesedit the qes file, adding the missing variablethen when you go to enter data again, Epidata will ask if you want to revise the rec filesay yesnow you can go back to the first record and add the values for the missing variable one record at a time there are other ways to do that as well and the best way will depend on how much effort you have already put into data entry what you propose is not wrong. It is just one of the ways to do the job. Jamie
I just made some data entry when I recognized that I forgot to write down a variable in the qes-file. My way to handle the problem is to write a new qes-file than a new rec-file and start the data entry again from the beginning. But this can't be the accurate way, right? In your help-area I saw this hint here, but I really don't know how to find "Analysis" and I don't know, whether I can use this hint for my problem...
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