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Hi all,

In my program for a Household Survey, there are the items: District, Sector and Cell -- Cell depends on which Sector the interviewer chooses and the Sector depends on which District the interviewer chooses. Thus, Sector and Cell have more than 1 value-set as for one District there are more than one Sectors and for one Sector there are more than one Cells. When I am exporting the data into Stata I only see the first value_set for these two Items. Is there an option at the export interface I am not using?

Best,
Stavros

There is not an option to export conditional value sets. And even if it were possible, you would have a problem with Stata reading them. If 5 means AAA in one context but BBB in another context, then you must have a mechanism for Stata to understand that as well. After all, CSPro/Stata simply see 5 as a number and try to associate a label with it. The number on its own cannot tell us if it should be AAA or BBB.

However, if your value sets are discrete, then you might simply collapse all the value sets into one value set for the item. You can do this by copying and pasting individual values into the first value set.