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| • | What
variables will be available to be analyzed? |
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| • | What
do they mean? |
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| • | Where
do they come from? |
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| – | Questionnaires |
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| – | Log
sheets or abstracting forms |
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| • | Data
dictionary – variable names and meanings |
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| (e.g.,
SMOK=Did you ever smoke more than 100 |
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| cigarettes
in a year?) |
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| • | Codebook
(e.g, 1=Yes, 2=No) |
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