Translation from narrative text to standard codes variables with Stata
Federico Belotti
University of Rome ``Tor Vergata''
Rome, Italy
federico.belotti@uniroma2.it
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Domenico Depalo
Bank of Italy
Rome, Italy
domenico.depalo@bancaditalia.it
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Abstract. In this article, we describe screening, a new Stata command for data
management that can be used to examine the content of complex narrative-text
variables to identify one or more user-defined keywords. The command is useful
when dealing with string data contaminated with abbreviations, typos, or mistakes.
A rich set of options allows a direct translation from the original narrative string
to a user-defined standard coding scheme. Moreover, screening is flexible enough
to facilitate the merging of information from different sources and to extract or
reorganize the content of string variables.
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