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Confirm variables: User entered categories are saved as strings but what if the actual data is numeric
- Dataset: In he PUMS dataset, education is represented by an integer between 1 and 16.
- Page: Confirm Variables
- Action: Change education Type to Categorical and manually enter the categories
- Error: The categories are captured as a strings instead of integers. When a statistic is run, say a histogram--the calculation or result fails. For example, a histogram puts all values in the "uncategorized" bin