Many thanks!
Louis
--- Maarten buis <[email protected]> wrote:
> --- Louis Boakye-Yiadom <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Thanks. I was, however, hoping there is a way of
> > knowing the actual (or kind of) modification
> mdade.
>
> The way to document the modifications you make to a
> data file is to make these modifications in a
> do-file, and save the original data and the do-file,
>
> and not the modified data. Whenever you need the
> modified data, you first run the do-file (I often
> call that do-file dataprep.do)
>
> This is always a good idea, not only because that
> way you keep a complete record of all changes you
> made, but also because in a real data-analysis
> project everybody makes mistakes during data-
> preparation. If you keep the original data and the
> do-file that made the modifications, than correcting
>
> the mistake is often matter of seconds. If you did
> not store the do-file, it is often a matter of days,
>
> and if you did not store the original data, all is
> lost.
>
> -- Maarten
>
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