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@@ -21,6 +21,6 @@ for all our data manipulation and:
 Thus the function to:
 
  * load the survey file and return it as a [data.table](https://rdatatable.gitlab.io/data.table/) is `SAVEr::survey_load(f)` where f is the file path
- * create the derived (recoded) tenure variable in the survey data is `SAVEr::survey_dv_tenure(dt)` where dt is the survey file as a [data.table](https://rdatatable.gitlab.io/data.table/)
+ * create the derived (recoded) `dv_tenure` variable in the survey data is `SAVEr::survey_dv_tenure(dt)` where dt is the survey file as a [data.table](https://rdatatable.gitlab.io/data.table/)