Internship project: ODK Briefcase - New export types

Thanks, @yanokwa! One thing that's interesting about exporting to statistical packages like SPSS, Stata, and R is that you can try to export the form metadata in addition to the submission data. For example, odkmeta imports the submission data CSV files to Stata, using the field names as the Stata variable names. It also attaches field labels as Stata variable labels and notes, imports choice lists as value labels, splits select_multiple variables, and formats date, time, and datetime fields as Stata date and time variables, among other manipulations. Data analysts can spend a significant amount of time adding that metadata to their data sets, so it can be useful to export it along with the data.

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