4.20 Adding to the LSDS

In the case that additional data are added to the the LSDS the following steps should be performed:

  1. The new data source, meta information and should be updated in the following googlesheet
  2. The data provider or steward should be briefed on the data sharing agreement as defined in this document
  3. The SAS program should be written to import, clean, validate, and write out a SAS data set to the \sas data sub-directory
  4. Initial quality verifications should be reviewed with the proper data steward to ensure that the output data set is properly clean and that all quality checks are being completed
  5. The Building FR cohort file_4_Xcombining_dev.sas program should be updates in to include this data set with care to include all the necessary array operations for this new data if that is relevant (i.e. term by term data)
  6. The Building FR cohort file_4_XRetention.sas program should be updated to verify that the new information is being treated correctly
  7. The Building FR cohort file_4_Xlong_format.sas program output should be inspected to ensure that the new data is being outputted correctly
  8. The new program should be added to the RETENTION_UPDATE.sas program