Setting country context

#1

One of the key points of using Mockaroo is the ability to provide consistency within data records and that’s very good but I get an issue with countries. I have made a crude fix by having a field “__country” that I sometimes set to just “United Kingdom” otherwise I get too many foreign ones which doesn’t reflect the content of the database. AFAICT, the country of the record is set by the first invocation of a country field type a further call to country doesn’t change it. The difference between this and the example of the car dealerships is the fact that the country sets the context of a number of other fields such as postcode.

What I would like to do is to be able to set the country or the distribution of countries according to the frequency column in a dataset. I have a table of ISO country codes with a frequency column. Ideally it could be done in a similar fashion to “Custom Lists” though it would need settings just add the values required and a weight for “All the rest.”

I would also like to invoke country a second time and get a different result.

BTW, am I right in thinking that the Country Code type is a the ISO 2-char code?

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#2

You can, in fact, use country multiple times and get different results. Any other location fields will also be based on the generated country. Here’s an example: http://mockaroo.com/a76b6890

I did, however, just notice a bug where if the filtered country list is not blank, the list for the last field is applied to all. I’ll see if I can fix that soon.

Yes, those are the ISO 2-char codes.

If I understand you correctly, you’d need a way to look up other location fields, such as city and postal code, for a specific county code from a list or dataset, correct? There isn’t a way to do that currently, though I might be able to build one.

#3

My original test used Country Code and then Country and in 100/100 rows they came out the same. When I switched to using Country, twice they were different. I now think this must be the same row algorithm you have mentioned elsewhere.

Yes, you got it - I suspect it could turn into quite a big topic.

#4

Hello Ian,
you wrote that Mockaroo is able to provide consistency within data records. For that reason I want to ask you, how to create consistent data.
I would like to create 5 rows with data that varies from 1 to 5 (Likert scale). Would be great if you would have a solution.

Kind regards,
Guenter

#5

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