[DDI-SRG] Interesting Question

Pascal Heus pascal.heus at gmail.com
Wed Jan 23 13:49:15 EST 2008


Wendy:
I'm actually using this in DExT, you can have missing value codes with 
specific category label. The 'missing' attribute could however be stored 
in the Code instead than the Category (right now I need to create a 
dummy Category with an empty Label for unlabeled missing codes).
*P


Wendy Thomas wrote:
> When describing a category within a category scheme....when would I WANT 
> to indicate that the category contains missing data? Isn't this a function 
> of its use in  a question and/or variable? Can someone provide an example 
> of when I would want to declare it in the category itself?
>
> Thanks
>
> Wendy
>
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