Re: st: A stata question

["Leonidas Murembya" <murembya@msu.edu>]

Thanks, Richard: I know it is coded 0 and 1, but I will check the missing 
value issue. 
Leo 
Richard Williams writes: 

> 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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