Re: st: Stata 9 announcement

[Phil Schumm <pschumm@uchicago.edu>]

At 10:31 AM -0400 4/6/05, Nick Winter wrote:
> One thing that occurs to me is to use this in conjunction with 
> support for multiple languages, in order to include complete 
> questionnaire wording in one set of labels, and shorter "analysis" 
> labels in another.
>
> There was a presentation at NASUG last year by Theodore Pollari & 
> Phil Schumm on using Stata as the base for a fully-integrated 
> questionnaire development, questionairre production, and analysis 
> system--I imagine the longer labels might be helpful in that sort of 
> context.  See http://ideas.repec.org/p/boc/asug04/6.html.

Nick's comment is indeed an accurate description of our approach.  We 
are working on a generalized language for describing questionnaires 
which, in the case of multiple choice questions, permits a full text 
description of each item and an optional, shorter label.  We then use 
Stata's support for multiple languages to retain all of this 
information (or meta-data) in the final dataset.


-- Phil
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