I am wondering if I can get advice on how to determine if an
interaction is significant in STATA that has 2 dummy coded variables
and one dummy coded variable has 3 levels. Using Ologit (by the way).
Years and years ago I used SPSS. In SPSS, blocks could be specified.
In the first block I would enter the main effect; in the 2nd block I
would enter the interaction terms. The interaction was only
considered significant if the Rsquare change was significant for the
2nd block. (btw, I do not have a license for SPSS now--so I can not
use that). Is there a way to do that in STATA? if not, how can I
interpret whether the below interaction terms are significant?
Here is what the simplified model looks like:
Dependent Variable: Education spending (response coded as 1, 2 or 3).
Independent variables:
Nat_security1 spending dummy 1 (recoded as follows: 1=1 & 2 or 3=0)
Nat_security2 spending dummy 2 (recoded as follows: 2=1 & 1 or 3=0)
Gender (female=1; male=0)
Nat_security1*gender
Nat_security2*gender
Thanks much!
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