Chapter 3: Codebooks: A Roadmap to Your Data
Introduction
Codebooks provide a roadmap for using your data and are as important as the data itself. With a good codebook, users of your data are able to answer many questions about the data without actually accessing the data set. With the best codebooks, both you and users of your data will see the reality of what is in your data set rather than what someone planned to include or thought it would contain.
This chapter describes what you will find in the best codebooks, how to use that information, and how to create a codebook by using the %TK_codebook macro. In addition to creating a codebook, you will experience using the most powerful feature of the %TK_codebook macro to effortlessly perform ...
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