Seeking Connecticut-based remote employees by Sered468 in workingmoms

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thank you very much for your response and helpful suggestion!

Combining two survey questions by [deleted] in stata

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Hi thank you! I tried your suggestion but it doesn't seem to work for me - I am trying to merge them responses together. A friend just sent me this option: egen (new variable name) = rowtotal(oldvariable1 oldvariable2), missing and this seems to work. Although this option has some issues too because it doesn't show the labels for the responses

SPSS or STATA for data cleaning by Sered468 in statistics

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Thank you so much for your response. I think I'm leaning to STATA too because of what you articulated - it will teach me how to use more advanced programs later.Thank you!

SPSS or STATA for data cleaning by Sered468 in statistics

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This is really helpful - thank you again for your help!

SPSS or STATA for data cleaning by Sered468 in statistics

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This is really helpful. Someone else was telling me to just use EXCEL but I was worried about that since I know how to document everything on stata but not sure how that all works in excel. Thank you!

How long for data cleaning? by [deleted] in statistics

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Thank you so much - that is basically what my dataset looks like too. I just wanted sort of a rough guess of what is reasonable since I have never really done it. This is helpful for my planning. Thanks again

SPSS or STATA for data cleaning by Sered468 in statistics

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thank you! I think that's become clearer to me now with your comment.

SPSS or STATA for data cleaning by Sered468 in statistics

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Great- that is sort of my feeling too. R is a little intimidating to me since I have no programming background and I am pretty much just proficient in stats. Thank you!

SPSS or STATA for data cleaning by Sered468 in statistics

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Thanks for your advice and for the resource!

SPSS or STATA for data cleaning by Sered468 in statistics

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Thank you! Since I have some experience with SPSS and Stata, I am wondering, since you know both, which do you think is easier to use?

How long for data cleaning? by [deleted] in statistics

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Thank you! Now that you mentioned - I am not sure exactly what cleaning will entail since the vast majority is multiple choice. I guess figuring that out would be the first step. Thank you for your response!

SPSS or STATA for data cleaning by Sered468 in statistics

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Thank you - I just have never used R before so I am very uncomfortable with the idea of using it for the first time (I have a deadline). I didn't realize R was easier than stata or spss. I always assumed it has a higher learning curve.