If -encode- is applied, only categorical variables are given
On 10/13/05, Jia Xiangping <[email protected]> wrote:
1) did you |
apply for a |
credit in |
2004 | Freq. Percent Cum.
------------+-----------------------------------
1 | 296 87.83 87.83
2 | 41 12.17 100.00
------------+-----------------------------------
Total | 337 100.00
After recode to 1 and 0, then label define and label value. Is that
too troublesome? If yes, strongly recommend others don't use "Boolean"
when Epidata is used to input data.
> Dear all,
>
> When data were input from questionnaires, epidata (version3.1) was
> used. One question, as "Did you applied credit last year", was set as
> "Boolean (yes/no)" in Epidata. But when data was exported to Stata
> 8.2, the result is very frustrating:
>
> -des v1, detail-
>
> storage display value
> variable name type format label variable label
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> v1 str1 %1s 1) did you
> apply for a credit
> in 2004
>
> -sum v1, detail-
>
> 1) did you apply for a credit in 2004
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> no observations
>
> -list v1-
>
> +----+
> | v1 |
> |----|
> 1. | N |
> 2. | N |
> 3. | N |
> 4. | N |
> 5. | N |
> |----|
> 6. | N |
> 7. | N |
> 8. | N |
> 9. | N |
> 10. | N |
> |----|
> 11. | N |
> 12. | N |
> 13. | N |
> 14. | N |
> 15. | N
>
> What I need is just a binary variable. Must I have to transform it to
> numerical variable firstly and then label variables and values again
> manually? Are there any other ways I can apply?
>
> If I could foresee this problem, I would have defined variable v1 as
> just numerical type in Epidata instead of "Boolean".
>
>
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> Xiangping JIA
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