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Re: Strange Issues w/ Data Formatting from DHS [message #29060 is a reply to message #29038]

Thu, 18 April 2024 10:07

tednoel
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Registered: April 2024

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Hi, thank you so much for responding. There are now multiple professors from my University across several departments trying to assist with this issue, but the issue is not with respect to unzipping the files- rather the issue is that the .dta files are not being extracted from the files when unzipping. We have attempted to make a loop using the dofile to extract the .dta but every .dta has a different type of file path- this is why we can't run everything at once... It goes without saying that extracting every .dta file for thousands of files would be nearly impossible in the month and a half I have left until my submission deadline. I'm truly beginning to panic because even professors who have worked with DHS data here have been puzzled by this challenge for several weeks now. Any resources or guidance you might be able to provide would be greatly appreciated.. Thank you so much in advance.

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		Strange Issues w/ Data Formatting from DHS By: tednoel on Sat, 13 April 2024 08:17
		Re: Strange Issues w/ Data Formatting from DHS By: Bridgette-DHS on Mon, 15 April 2024 11:02
		Re: Strange Issues w/ Data Formatting from DHS By: tednoel on Thu, 18 April 2024 10:07
		Re: Strange Issues w/ Data Formatting from DHS By: Trevor-DHS on Fri, 19 April 2024 10:56
		Re: Strange Issues w/ Data Formatting from DHS By: tednoel on Mon, 29 April 2024 08:04
		Re: Strange Issues w/ Data Formatting from DHS By: tednoel on Mon, 29 April 2024 11:54
		Re: Strange Issues w/ Data Formatting from DHS By: Trevor-DHS on Mon, 29 April 2024 15:49
		Re: Strange Issues w/ Data Formatting from DHS By: tednoel on Wed, 01 May 2024 12:02
		Re: Strange Issues w/ Data Formatting from DHS By: Trevor-DHS on Wed, 01 May 2024 13:01
		Re: Strange Issues w/ Data Formatting from DHS By: tednoel on Wed, 01 May 2024 14:40
		Re: Strange Issues w/ Data Formatting from DHS By: Trevor-DHS on Wed, 01 May 2024 15:50
		Re: Strange Issues w/ Data Formatting from DHS By: tednoel on Thu, 02 May 2024 08:46
		Re: Strange Issues w/ Data Formatting from DHS By: Trevor-DHS on Thu, 02 May 2024 10:03
		Re: Strange Issues w/ Data Formatting from DHS By: tednoel on Thu, 02 May 2024 18:12
		Re: Strange Issues w/ Data Formatting from DHS By: Trevor-DHS on Thu, 02 May 2024 19:18
		Re: Strange Issues w/ Data Formatting from DHS By: yyumeee on Sun, 12 May 2024 13:54
		Re: Strange Issues w/ Data Formatting from DHS By: Trevor-DHS on Mon, 13 May 2024 10:59
		Re: Strange Issues w/ Data Formatting from DHS By: yyumeee on Mon, 13 May 2024 13:12
		Re: Strange Issues w/ Data Formatting from DHS By: tednoel on Tue, 11 June 2024 06:07
		Re: Strange Issues w/ Data Formatting from DHS By: Trevor-DHS on Tue, 11 June 2024 09:57
		Re: Strange Issues w/ Data Formatting from DHS By: tednoel on Tue, 11 June 2024 10:50
		Re: Strange Issues w/ Data Formatting from DHS By: Trevor-DHS on Tue, 11 June 2024 14:12

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