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[Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Hiatt, Mr Tom (WPRO) <hiattt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

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> Ah yes, of course. Thanks!****
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> For me, I have individual codes for these data elements (population by age
> and sex), but previously I had them stored as individual variables rather
> than dimensions of the population variable. This time around I’m trying to
> store them in the “right” way as dimensions, which seems more logical. (I
> hope I don’t get bit down the road for this…) For my use so far, this is a
> one-off data import exercise, but I could imagine scenarios where one would
> like to import more frequently from a database that stores them as
> individual variables as mine did. However, seeing as how these data would
> probably come from different systems that use different coding schemes,
> perhaps a mapping exercise would be necessary anyway. I’ll let you know if
> I run into that hurdle.****
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> Tom****
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Great. Let us know how it goes.