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Re: st: Need help to create variable from list of qualitative variables
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Need help to create variable from list of qualitative variables
Date
Sun, 6 Mar 2011 15:10:03 +0000
In fact you might as well go
gen myvar = 7 - (var1 + var2 + var3 + var4 + var5 + var6)
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> egen myvar = rowtotal(var1-var6)
> replace myvar = 7 - myvar
>
> Nick
>
> On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 12:39 PM, prakash singh <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I have six qualitative variable with two options (yes/no) in each
>> question. Now, I want to create a variable using these six variable
>> such that the new variable will have value equal to one if for all the
>> six variables option is yes, then new variable will have value equal
>> to two if for any five variables option is yes and no for any one of
>> these.... and so on.
>
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