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== Guidelines ==
== Guidelines ==
* organize information on the topic into subsections. for each subsection, include a brief description / overview, with links to articles that provide details
* organize information on the topic into subsections. for each subsection, include a brief description / overview, with links to articles that provide details
===Orgnaization of Project folder===
==Orgnaization of Project folder==
===Master data sets===
==Master data sets==
===Naming conventions===
==Naming conventions==


== Back to Parent ==
== Back to Parent ==

Revision as of 16:13, 25 January 2017

Due to the long life span of a typical impact evaluation, where multiple generations of team members will contribute to the same data work, clear methods for organization of the data folder, the structure of the data sets in that data folder, and the identification of the observations in those data sets is critical


Read First

  • never work with a data set where the observations does not have standardized IDs. If you get a data set without IDs, the first thing you need to do is to create IDs
  • always create master data sets for all unit of observations relevant to the analysis

Guidelines

  • organize information on the topic into subsections. for each subsection, include a brief description / overview, with links to articles that provide details

Orgnaization of Project folder

Master data sets

Naming conventions

Back to Parent

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Additional Resources

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