Dear all,
I need to create a variable which will contain the count the number of
nonmissing values in varlist for each observation for the variables
called fammem1, fammem2 etc.
I came up with the following command:
egen nmbfammem= rownonmiss (fammem*)
The problem is I have two types of variables starting with fammem:
fammem1, fammem2 etc. until fammem10 (which note one's family members)
and
fammem1_liv, fammem2_liv etc. (which notes whether one lives with the
given family member in the same household or not)
and I only want to create the count of one's family members.
Is it possible in Stata 11 to specify varlist as all variables the name
of which start with fammem followed by a number between 1 and 10?
I will be very grateful for advice,
Sincerely yours,
Ekaterina
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