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st: RE: computing percentages


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: computing percentages
Date   Wed, 28 Apr 2004 15:51:59 +0100

Multiply by 100? 

Nick 
[email protected] 

mertenmj
 
> I am using the following command:
> 
> g nonmetro=hmsa_r==2
> 
> g total=hmsa_r==1 | hmsa_r==2 | hmsa_r==3
> 
> gen pnonmetro=nonmetro/total 
> 
> I want the "pnonmetro" variable to be expressed in terms of 
> percentage, from the resulting nonmetro/total. How do I do this?

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