Date:         Sun, 5 Nov 2006 09:32:32 +1000
Reply-To:     Bob Green <bgreen@dyson.brisnet.org.au>
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From:         Bob Green <bgreen@dyson.brisnet.org.au>
Subject:      Re: complex merge question
Comments: To: Richard Ristow <wrristow@mindspring.com>
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Richard,

Thanks for your reply.

The basic question of interest is whether a mental health admission makes
any difference to subsequent police contact. Once the data is formatted,
the idea at this stage is to have a series of variables relating to
seriousness of offence pre and post admission. Is this too vague?  Seeing a
sample of the data may give a better idea of what it looks like.  I think
ultimately, we will have some summary variables - offence against person
-pre and post etc, but it will be easier to see what is going on if the
data was all in one file

regards

Bob