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]: [drop] functionality handles wildcards and [n_obs] incorrectly #228
Using the following sheet, the command neither respects the intended total number of observations to drop, nor does it correctly implement the logic in the second row (zero observations should be dropped).
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iecorrect apply using "/users/bbdaniels/desktop/correct.xlsx" , idvar(make foreign) noi
No corrections of type numeric.
No corrections of type string.
Number of observations to be dropped: 22
** Drop observations
drop if (foreign == 1)
(22 observations deleted)
drop if (foreign == 0)
(52 observations deleted)
Using the following sheet, the command neither respects the intended total number of observations to drop, nor does it correctly implement the logic in the second row (zero observations should be dropped).
*
Corresponding correction required at the helpfile below, including indicating whether
n_obs
is required or not (and whether or not it is required to be accurate -- I would make this check the default, but skippable by entering wildcard*
in the cell): https://github.com/worldbank/iefieldkit/blob/9d67bbb224c14bc1ab37a996f3cd0469468d49e6/src/help_files/iecorrect.sthlp#L154-L159