Hi Say I have a data set with 100 variables. The set has different sections, like demographics, opinions about pets, dietary habits, and so on. When I download the data from a survey monkey type service as a spreadsheet, the downloaded data set doesn't have any short labels, but just the questions themselves (what's the highest level of education you attained, do you live in the eastern region, do you live in the western region) as the header for each column. I still need to do some data manipulation, combining vars, summing all the yes's, and so on. When I make variable names, what's the best practice? Or the most common. Would I name everything v1 to v100? But that way, I couldn't look at a var name and tell what the question is. Or use vdemog_ed, vdemog_age, and so on, where each var name is an abbreviated name of the variable. This way I can look at the var name and figure out what question it represents. Thanks
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