Line for the server...
Hi, welcome to the Stata community, very good to see you! Have you actually
tried to run the line " gen expenditure maingrp (weight=new_wgt),row"? I
have a hard time figuring out what that is supposed to do. -gen- requires at
least an equal sign to run (see -h gen-), and AFAIK, it does not have the
"row" option...
HTH
Martin
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mosidi Nhlapo
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 11:51 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: Analysing expenditure data
Stata users,
I hope you can help me! I am new to STATA
I need to run an analysis, using the expenditure variable (
valuedairyannualized) in the Income and Expenditure Survey, but I failed as
STATA returned an error code saying "too many items "
So i created a variable in the data set called expediture and coded it 0-
12.
In the data set Expenditure is grouped based on type of expenditure
namely: main grp, secondarygrp and thirdgrp
I would like to run tables that will give me total household expenditure,
within each expenditure group
This is the advice I got:
gen new_wgt=round(( Weight*valueannualized))
then syntax is:
gen expenditure maingrp (weight=new_wgt),row
(where maingrrp is type of expenditure)
1. Is there any way to do this without first group the expenditure
(variablevalueannualized)
2. Tabulate seems to give me the number of household within each
expenditure group instead of their actual expenditure
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Mosidi
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