Hi all,

Thanks Juergen for your valuable tip to use

respnumber TYPE SATUSBAR end

to show the value of field 'respnumber' in the statusbar during data entry! I'm quite unexperienced in using epidata and didn't know of this nice feature.

Still I have a question. Is it also possible to show the value of the automatic IDNUM field in the statusbar? The reason for this question is that I do not want to enter the respondent number myself, but would like to use the automatically generated IDNUM instead.

More or less related is the next question. If one uses the following two lines (look quite meaningless, I agree)

<IDNUM> <IDNUM>

in the QES file, then why does, during data entry, the first <IDNUM> always stay 1 - even after entering the second, third etc. case - while the second <IDNUM> is adjusted to the correct case number, i.e., the one who's data are currently being entered?

Bye and thanks for any help, Ben.