Event_descr missing in 2021 Spring edition

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Eduardo Mercadante
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Event_descr missing in 2021 Spring edition

Post by Eduardo Mercadante » Thu May 13, 2021 11:44 am

Hello,

I was updating my sample of legal event data (tls231_inpadoc_legal_event) and for some reason the variable event_descr is missing. I have made other queries just to test and none has retrieved this value. If I ask directly for it, the system indicates invalid column name. If I ask for all columns (*), it is missing.

Is this an error or has this variable been dropped from the table? It is very hard to understand the data without it.

Best regards,
Eduardo Mercadante
PhD Candidate at LSE


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Re: Event_descr missing in 2021 Spring edition

Post by EPO / PATSTAT Support » Fri May 14, 2021 8:08 am

Hello Eduardo,
Indeed, the column is not included in tls231_inpadoc_legal_event in PATSTAT (but that is normal).
You can link to tls803_legal_event_code via a join using the event_auth AND the event_code.
Below is an example on how to do this.

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SELECT top 10 * from tls231_inpadoc_legal_event
join tls803_legal_event_code 
on tls231_inpadoc_legal_event.event_auth = tls803_legal_event_code.event_auth
AND tls231_inpadoc_legal_event.event_code = tls803_legal_event_code.event_code
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Eduardo Mercadante
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Re: Event_descr missing in 2021 Spring edition

Post by Eduardo Mercadante » Fri May 14, 2021 12:08 pm

Thanks for explaining how to unite these tables. That should solve the issue.

However, is there a reason why this column was removed? I have been extracting legal event data using tls231 for over a year and event_descr was always there. Only with this last edition that it was removed. Are there plans to getting it back in?

Best,
Eduardo Mercadante
PhD Candidate at LSE


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