st: RE: AW: recode 9, 99, 999,..., into missing

["Lachenbruch, Peter" <Peter.Lachenbruch@oregonstate.edu>]

Maybe I'm missing the point, but couldn't mvdecode handle this with three calls?
mvdecode var3,mv(9/.)
You may want to consider special missings for notanswered and refuse to answer and etc.

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From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Martin Weiss [martin.weiss1@gmx.de]
Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 8:10 AM
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Subject: st: AW: recode 9, 99, 999,..., into missing

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Not sure whether this is totally foolproof, try it yourself :-) -mod()- just
has to part of the solution, I think:


*************
clear*

inp byte(var1 var2) int(var3 var4)
1 1 1 1
2 2 2 2
3 3 3 3
4 8 99 999
5 9 100 1000
6 10 101 1001
7 11 150 5000
9 12 999 9999
end

foreach var of varlist *{
        sum `var', mean
        local notanswered = cond((mod(r(max),9)==0),r(max),.)
        if !mi(`notanswered') replace `var'=. if `var'==`notanswered'
}

list, noo
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HTH
Martin


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[mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] Im Auftrag von Amanda Fu
Gesendet: Sonntag, 16. Mai 2010 16:57
An: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Betreff: st: recode 9, 99, 999,..., into missing

Hi all,

I have seen a couple of times that for some data sets the "not
answered" is coded as 9, 99, 999...... and the number of digit of 9
depends on the number of digit of the maximum  value of the variable.
It is convenient to analyze if recoding them into missing. But the
problem is, for some variables, 9 or 99 might be the real values. I
was wondering if there is any good way to deal with this kind of
recoding.
(In the past we have a discussion thread of using the value label
information such as "not answered"  to deal with this question. What I
am asking here is what if there are no such value labels ?)

For example, here are three variables :
var1 takes values: {1,2,3,4,9}
     where   9 means "not answered"
var2 takes values: {1,2,3,......8,9,10,11,12,99}
where 99 means " "not answered"
var3 takes values: {1,2,3,...99,100,101,..,150,999}           where
999 means " "not answered"
var4 takes values: {1,2,3,...999,1000,1001,..5000,9999} where 9999
means " "not answered"

Now I am thinking to recode int he following way:

foreach var of varlist *  {
sum `var'
replace `var'=. if r(max)<9       & `var'==9
replace `var'=. if r(max)<99     & r(max)>9       & `var'==99
replace `var'=. if r(max)<999   & r(max)>99    & `var'==999
replace `var'=. if r(max)<9999 & r(max)>999 & `var'==9999
}

I would like to hear if anyone has better method instead of this.
Thanks for your time!

Best wishes,
Amanda
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