I really appreciate your help!
Thank you very much,
Leonor
2008/5/23, Austin Nichols <[email protected]>:
> I think the desired command is the mean of nonmissing--see -help egen- or try
>
> clear
> input id stove refri house
> 1 1 1 0
> 2 0 . 1
> 3 . . 0
> end
> egen ib=rowmean(stove refri house)
> li, noo
>
> On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> > First principles solution:
> >
> > gen IB = 0
> > foreach v of var stove refri house {
> > replace IB = IB + !missing(`v')
> > }
> >
> > Quick and dirty:
> >
> > egen IB = rownonmiss(stove refri house)
> >
> > Nick
> > [email protected]
> >
> > Leonor Saravia
> >
> > I'm learning how to make some programs in Stata and I�m having
> > problems in how I could tell Stata to do an indicator I need.
> >
> > I'm working with the data base for different countries of
> > latinamerica. In almost all of them I have the same dummy variables
> > which tell me if the interviwed household has or not a particular good
> > in the house, but there are cases where the country didn't ask the
> > household about having this goods, so in this cases I have the
> > variable with missing values.
> >
> > The dummy variables, which distinguish the goods being studied, are:
> > 'stove' (1 if has a stove; 0 other way) ; 'refri' (1 if it has a
> > refrigerator ; 0 other way) ; 'house' (1 if it's the owner of the
> > house ; 0 other way) .
> >
> > My problem is that I'd like to perform the next indicator:
> >
> > gen IB = (stove + refri + house)/q
> >
> > where 'q' is a number between 1 and 3, depending how many variables
> > had values different from missing.
> >
> > The data looks like this (and I agregate the value - in fraction - for
> > the IB that I would like to create):
> >
> > id_household stove refri house IB
> > 1 1 1 0 2/3
> > 2 0 . 1 1/2
> > 3 . . 0 0/1
> >
> > I'd appreciate very much if you could help me, because I 'don't know
> > how I could tell Stata to do this.
>
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