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worldbank / iefieldkit

Stata commands designed for Impact Evaluations field work. These are tools that are used during/after a survey in the field for data quality monitoring.
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[iecorrect] print message reminding users to apply value labels if the 'other' tab is used #207

Closed luizaandrade closed 1 year ago

luizaandrade commented 2 years ago

There is a small issue with the "other" tab. First, I would expect that it would allow the user to provide value labels for the new categorical variable.

Well, this is an iecodebook functionality. iecorrect only changes the data itself, it does not create labels. I would prefer to not have two commands that do the same thing, or it can become tricky to maintain. I'd rather add a note in the help file pointing to iecodebook for that. What to you think?

I agree. I would even go a little farther and print a note after execution if this feature is used, reminding the user to apply value labels, since it will be soooo easy to lose track of categories if they don't do it right away.