Re: st: How to select missing variables for analysis?

[Richard Goldstein <richgold@ix.netcom.com>]

You can either explicitly set them to missing
(e.g., replace weight=. if weight==888) or you can
use the -mvdecode- command

Rich

Ziad El-Khatib wrote:
> Hi!
> it might be very basic question, but any tips will be great!
> In my dataset, missing variables are given value of "888", I know how
> to label them as missing in SPSS and this won't affect analysis, so
> they will not be shown.
>
> I ma trying to find a way to let STATA analyse dataset by avoiding
> including records with value 888 in variable "weight" (for example)
>
> Any tips how to do in STATA?
>
>
> Thank you and best regards
> ziad
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