Good!
I didn't spell out that I feared that there are yet other variables in
what might be Ekaterina's _real_ problem, lurking behind her stated
problem, making a more general approach attractive too.
Nick
[email protected]
Jeph Herrin
Briefer yet:
gen min=mininc1*500+mininc2*1000+mininc3*1500
which also traps the missings Nick cautions about.
Nick Cox wrote:
> A variation on the same idea:
>
> gen min = 500
>
> foreach v in 1000 1500 2000 {
> replace min = `v' if mindesinc_`v' == 1
> }
>
> To be careful, check
>
> egen row = rowtotal(mindesinc*)
> assert row == 1
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> Martin Weiss
>
> *reconstruct Ekaterina`s data
> clear*
> input id mindesinc_500_999 mindesinc_1000_1499 mindesinc_1500_1999
> 101 1 0 0 0
> 102 0 1 0 0
> 103 0 0 1 0
> 104 0 0 1 0
> 105 0 1 0 0
> end
> *construct the minimum desired income
> g mindesinc=500 if mindesinc_500_999
> replace mindesinc=1000 if mindesinc_1000_1499
> replace mindesinc=1500 if mindesinc_1500_1999
> l
>
> Ekaterina Hertog
> I am dealing with a dataset from a private company and so my data
often
> comes in rather strange format and I now came against the following
> problem:
>
> I have a set of individuals who answered questions about desired
income.
>
> It looks as follows:
>
> Individ nmb | Min desired income 500 - 999 | 1000 - 1499 | 1500 -
2000
> |
> 101 | 0
> | 0 | 1 |
> 102 | 0
> | 1 | 1 |
> 103 | 0
> | 0 | 1 |
> 104 | 1
> | 1 | 1 |
> 105 | 0
> | 1 | 1 |
>
> Is there a way to automatically recode these binary minimum desired
> income variables into a numerical variable which would state the
minimum
>
> acceptable figure for each individual?
> That is some routine which would check "Min desired income 500 - 999"
> and if it equals 1 then would input 500 for the individual in question
> into a newly constructed variable "Minimum acceptable income" and move
> on to the next person and if it equals 0 would look at the value of
> "1000 - 1499" variable and if it equals 1 would input 1000 for that
> person and move on to the next person and if it is 0 would look at
"1500
>
> - 2000" variable?
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