[EB] ERRATA: EB TREND FILE (2)

[Peter Granda]

Dear List Members:

ICPSR will soon update our collection of the Mannheim Eurobarometer Trend 
File (ICPSR 3384) to correct this error.  Please note that this problem 
with the weights only affects the ASCII version of the data file.  The SPSS 
Export File that accompanies the collection has always had the correct 
weight variables included.

We regret any inconvenience this error may have caused,
Peter


Peter Granda,  Assistant Archival Director
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
(http://www.icpsr.umich.edu)                       peterg at icpsr.umich.edu
P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1248  +1(734)998-9855 (voice) 
+1(734)998-9889 (FAX)

At 01:07 PM 11/26/02 +0100, you wrote:

>Dear list members,
>
>ZA users of the Mannheim Eurobarometer Trend file will be contacted and if
>necessary supplied with the correct data set. Others should please contact
>their respective national archive.
>
>With best regards
>Meinhard Moschner
>
>------- Forwarded message follows -------
>From:                   Meinhard Moschner <moschner at za.uni-koeln.de>
>To:                     eurobarometer at icpsr.umich.edu
>Subject:                ERRATA: EB TREND FILE
>Send reply to:          moschner at za.uni-koeln.de
>Date sent:              Tue, 26 Nov 2002 09:25:58 +0100
>
>Dear list members,
>
>please notice the following error in the Eurobarometer Trend file
>(ICPSR 3384 / ZA 3521):
>
>During the data processing at the archives the three weighting
>variables have unfortunatly not been formatted correctly. The weights
>obviously produce erroneous data: between 76 and 90 cases for the
>whole file! (Did nobody notice that so far?)  This is supposed to be
>true for all data sets distributed by ICPSR and for ZA distributions
>as of May 2002 and later. Please check your data set anyway.
>
>The correct data set will immediately be made available via FTP.
>Detailed announcement will follow through this list.
>
>I am very sorry for this complication.
>
>With best regards
>Meinhard Moschner
>
>------- End of forwarded message -------
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