hi lee
for this, if i understand the situation correctly, could concatinate the
fields into one long one. then sort then do a freq. or continate the fields
(called ALL) and then generate a new field if ALL==1 and so on.
patrick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lee Sieswerda" <[email protected]>
To: "Statalist (E-mail)" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 10:34 AM
Subject: st: multiple response to binary
> Hello all:
> I have a data management problem (WinNT4, Stata v7).
>
> I have data from a questionnaire where some of the questions allow the
> respondent to choose multiple responses. Lets say there 7 possible
responses
> and they could choose any number of them. I would code this as a set of 7
> binary variables. Unfortunately, the way it was coded was not so
> straightforward. It was coded across 7 variables, but the responses were
> simply entered in the order in which they were given by the respondent. So
> the data look like this:
>
> f4m1 f4m2 f4m3 f4m4 f4m5 f4m6 f4m7
> 1 7 4 . . . .
> 1 . . . . . .
> 1 . . . . . .
> 1 . . . . . .
> 7 3 . . . . .
> 1 . . . . . .
> 1 2 3 4 . . .
> 1 2 3 4 6 . .
> 1 2 7 . . . .
> 1 . . . . . .
>
> As you can see, you cannot simply tabulate the number of people who
> responded 1, 2 , 3 etc because the responses are scattered over the 7
> variables in a different order for every person. The folks who provided me
> with this data use SPSS and they get around this problem by using
"multiple
> responses sets". In SPSS, you can define a set of variables as a multiple
> response set (in this case, seven variables) and then ask for tables of
> frequencies and crosstabs generated from across the 7 variables. It works,
> but I'd much rather use Stata than SPSS. Also, the SPSS solution is
limited
> to simple tables and doesn't permit you to get chi-square or other
> statistics.
>
> Now, in Stata I know I can generate dummy variables from this mess like
> this:
> gen dum1 = 0
> replace dum1 = 1 if f4m1==1 | f4m2==1 | f4m3==1 etc.
> replace dum1 = . if f4m1==. & f4m2==. & f4m3==. etc.
> gen dum2 = 0
> etc.
>
> However, this is tedious in the extreme and there are many of these
multiple
> response questions in the dataset. I could automate the procedure somewhat
> using -foreach-, but its still more brute force than elegance. Someone
told
> me about a SAS solution to this problem using an array procedure. Does
> anyone have a nice elegant Stata solution to this problem?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lee
>
> Lee Sieswerda, Epidemiologist
> Thunder Bay District Health Unit
> 999 Balmoral Street
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