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The delete function is for record occurrences. If you want to delete a case, you need to use the delcase function. However, you can't delete a case from the current file you're entering data into, so usually you use that function in a menu program.

You'll have to post more details about what you're trying to do. What are you trying to link?

If your Excel data is in the format:

Column 1: Label
Column 2: Value

You can copy it and paste it into the CSPro value set editor. That will create a value set from the Excel data.

CSPro 7.0.2 was released as is available here: https://www.census.gov/population/inter ... nload.html

You may want to review the CSPro documentation concerning logic. Your syntax is not valid CSPro syntax. You do not need to put quotation marks around variable names. "Count" also does not mean anything, and the skip statement works to move to a field, it cannot be used to make an assignmen...

Your code seems fine. Is it possible that you have a PFF file from previous testing still in the csentry folder and that that is what is showing?

Try deleting everything from the csentry folder and putting everything back on. Does it still show up?

Is so, send the PFF file to cspro@lists.census.gov.

You can do this, but this is mostly done by CSPro users who adopt the DHS (and I believe MICS) model of tabulation. There is no documentation about this in the CSPro helps. Unless anyone on the forum has done this and can help, you best option is to contact ICF to see if they have any documentation ...

There is no way to do this automatically. If you had some programming skills, you would read in the dictionary (.dcf) and write out the CAPI questions (.qsf) file. They are both text files, but this task would not be trivial.

If you go with the suggestion from jfigueroa, here is a comment on the logic. When extracting substrings, the second part after the colon is the number of characters requested, not the ending character. So you would write:

You'll have to provide more details about what you're interested in doing. The Getting Started Guide has information about repeating records:

https://www.census.gov/population/inter ... tart70.pdf