Re: st: A stata question

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 10:33 PM 11/15/2007, Leonidas Murembya wrote:
> Hello stata users:
> Here is a question for you:
> I am trying to run a logistic regression between the dummy 
> "employed" with a number of RHS variables. I have 875 observations 
> with 0 (not employed) and 2,185 employed (that is 1). Stata is 
> telling me that "outcome does not vary; remember: 0 = negative outcome,
>     all other nonmissing values = positive outcome"
> Do you have any suggestion on how I can correct this?
> Thanks.
> Leo
I'm guessing that either (a) "employed" isn't really coded 0 or 1, 
e.g. it is coded 1 or 2; or else (b) missing data on the RHS is 
causing you to lose all the cases that are either coded 0 or else coded 1.

Just running a few descriptive statistics may help you to identify the problem.


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