Re: st: How can I count the number of variables that meet a certain condition per observation?

["Schreck, Philipp" <schreck@bwl.lmu.de>]

Hi Daniel,

Thank you very much for your help. Sorry for not having found the corresponding text via the -help- function before. I actually needed both, counting the number of variables with value "2":
egen var1 = anycount(var_101-var_110), values(2)

and computing the sum across these variables (sorry for the imprecise question).

Thanks & greetings,
Philipp 
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Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2011 13:18:57 +0100
From: daniel klein <klein.daniel.81@googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: st: How can I count the number of variables that meet a certain condition per observation?

Phillip "would like to count for each observation the number of
variables that meet a certain condition, say var*==2."

The very first function in -help egen- is -anycount()- and is described as:

"It returns the number of variables in varlist for  which values are
equal to any integer value in a supplied numlist.  [...] Also see
anyvalue(varname) and anymatch(varlist)."

However, I am not sure I am getting the problem, because

"[...] computing the sum across variables (for each observation) ONLY
for those variables with values greater than 1"

to me means something comletely different and is not at all

"[...] alternatively, [...]"

to

"the number of variables with values greater than 1 per observation"

Best
Daniel
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