Re: st: question about calculating frequencies

[Maarten buis <maartenbuis@yahoo.co.uk>]

--- On Sat, 27/3/10, Ekaterina Hertog wrote:
> I have a dataset containing individuals and about 40
> variables representing their interest in various activities.
> Each interest variable has a value of 1, 2 or 3 depending on
> the strength of interest expressed. I need to calculate
> numbers of men and women who expressed interest level 1 for
> each activity and then incorporate them as constants into my
> dataset.

*----------------- begin example -------------------
clear
input id sex int_baseball int_music int_cinema
1    1           1        2    1
2    1           1        3    1
3    2           3        1    2
4    1           2        1    2
5    2           2        2    1
end

foreach var of varlist int_* {
	bys sex `var' : gen N`var' = _N if `var' == 1
	bys sex (`var') : replace N`var' = N`var'[1]
	replace N`var' = 0 if N`var' == .
}

list
*------------------ end example ------------------------

Hope this helps,
Maarten

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