I think you need two & operators. No logical operator
can be given implicitly. Parenthesising aggressively
would do no harm either.
So, for example, there is no Stata equivalent
of
a <= x <= b
except (a <= x) & (x <= b)
Nick
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peter harper
> I am trying to code in stata the number of people with work
> limiting disability. I have two variables in my dataset
> relating to disability.
>
>
> When I issued
>
> .ge disabledwklim=.
>
> .replace disabledwklim=1 if e6a==1&e6b==1
> 997 changes made
>
> (this is correct). But when I issued the following command I
> cannot obtain "18825 changes made total", that is from
> e6a==2+(e6a==1-e6b==2)= 17,174+1651 which is =18825
>
> .replace disabledwklim=2 if e6a==2&e6a==1-e6b==2
> (no changes made)
>
> I would be grateful if anyone would let me know the correct
> command for the second replace above.
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