tamerge

A Stata command for merging SurveyCTO text audit data with imported Stata data sets.

To Do

• Add SMCL help file documentation.
• Add checks to verify text audit variable.
• Add checks to verify media location option.
• Add prefix option.
• Add save option.
• Add groupnames option for data sets that maintain SCTO group names.
• Add stats option for quick overview of enumerator performance.
• Optimize performance of the merge.
• Add license information.
• Adjust progress display items (if needed).
• Create unit test examples.
• Overall make code more consistent with odkmeta, perhaps for eventual merger.

Help File

Title

    tamerge -- Merge data from SurveyCTO text audit files with SurveyCTO
        Stata data set in memory.

Syntax

        tamerge varname, media(medialocation) [options]

    options                               Description
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Main
    * media(medialocation)                location of the media folder
                                            created by SurveyCTO that
                                            contains the text audit data

    Options
      prefix(stub)                        replace default ta prefix with
                                            stub.
      save(dtaname)                       write merged data set to a local
                                            dta file named dtaname.
      stats(enumerator)                   display summary statistics for
                                            audit variables and test for
                                            differences across enumerator.
      replace                             overwrite existing filename
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------
    * media() is required.


Description

    tamerge merges SurveyCTO text audit data stored in .csv files in the
    media folder with the data set in memory based on file mapping contained
    in variable varname.

Remarks

    Blah, blah, blah....

Options

        +------+
    ----+ Main +-------------------------------------------------------------

    media(medialocation) blah, blah, blah.

        +---------+
    ----+ Options +----------------------------------------------------------

    prefix(stub) blah, blah, blah.

    save(dtaname) blah, blah, blah.

    stats(enumerator) blah, blah, blah.

    replace blah, blah, blah.

Examples


Acknowledgements

    Nate Barker of Innovations for Poverty Action wrote the original do-file
    on which tamerge is based and provided valuable assitance in all aspects
    of testing and deployment. All credit for tamerge's success should go to
    him.


Author

    Christopher Boyer

    For questions or suggestions, submit a GitHub issue or e-mail
    researchsupport@poverty-action.org.