es de contexto

English translation: this is informational only

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Spanish term or phrase:es de contexto
English translation:this is informational only
Entered by: DLyons

03:39 Nov 2, 2014
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Mathematics & Statistics / Administrative datasets
Spanish term or phrase: es de contexto
This phrase is from a self-assessment questionnaire for personnel working with administrative datasets. I'm guessing that the phrase means 'for contextual purposes only' or something like that. Any better ideas?

Calcular, para las principales variables cuantitativas cuál es su desvío estándar. Esta información **es de contexto** y no se utiliza para el cálculo de indicadores de la calidad de la herramienta.
Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
Local time: 22:19
this is informational only
Explanation:
A standard way of phrasing this. Both your own version and TravellingTrans' are also fine.

"This information is (purely) contextual"
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DLyons
Ireland
Local time: 06:19
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Thanks, Donal!
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Summary of answers provided
4is for context
TravellingTrans
4to provide context
Jaime Hyland
4is contextual
James A. Walsh
3this is informational only
DLyons
3for comparative purposes
Neil Ashby


  

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19 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
is for context


Explanation:
basically I think you are correct, so this is how I would read it and phrase it. First calculate the standard deviation, this information "is for context" and is not used for...

seems pretty straightforward

hope that helps

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Note added at 20 mins (2014-11-02 04:00:10 GMT)
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i'm not doing a full translation just laying down the gist...

TravellingTrans
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Esta información es de contexto
this is informational only


Explanation:
A standard way of phrasing this. Both your own version and TravellingTrans' are also fine.

"This information is (purely) contextual"

DLyons
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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
to provide context


Explanation:
My suggestion would be:

"This information is used to [merely] provide context and not ..."

Or some thing similar.

Make the verb "to use" cover both clauses of the sentence.

Jaime Hyland
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for comparative purposes


Explanation:
The SD/This data is used for comparative purposes and not.....

Also, you could say "The SD/This data is used as reference/background material and not....

Neil Ashby
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es de contexto
is contextual


Explanation:
Another option.


    Reference: http://ils.unc.edu/callee/p95-lee.pdf
James A. Walsh
Spain
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
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