Thanks Hans and Jamie. Your suggestion worked for me.

Regards,

Bola

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You should do this with GOTO as Hans suggests:

a06   before entry     if (a04 >=0 and a04 <=18) then      goto a08     endif   end end

blocks that begin with a variable name cannot appear within the block for another variable. If you need to use the variable tempv elsewhere, then include this at the top of your check file

before file   define tempv # global end

Jamie

On 2010-08-05, at 7:25 AM, epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca wrote:

Variable a04 is exact age of respondent while variable a06 is another question. Variable a06 is only applicable to respondents whose age range is 0-18 otherwise a jump is required to variable a08. This is what I have done below but I keep getting error message.

Kindly help on how I can achieve the jumps.

Thank you.

Bola Adedoyin (Mrs) DC Pro-Data Consult Lagos, Nigeria

a06           BEFORE ENTRY      define tempv #       IF a04 RANGE 0 18 THEN tempv=1            ELSE tempv=2       ENDIF       tempv           JUMPS             2 a08           END         END    END      END

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