Re: st: Mark observations with missing data

[Alan Neustadtl <alan.neustadtl@gmail.com>]

The missing function might be useful here.  See -help missing()-.  For example:

/* Begin example */

sysuse auto, clear
gen missvar=0
replace missvar=1 if missing(rep78, mpg, price)
list rep78 mpg price missvar

/* End example */

Best, Alan

On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Richard Herron
<richard.c.herron@gmail.com> wrote:
> I learned about -dropmiss- (Stata Journal) from this Stata List post:
> http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2010-05/msg00513.html
>
> But I would like to keep all observations and just mark the ones with
> missing observations in a given -varlist-. This way with an -if-
> statement I can find summary statistics for the same data that I will
> later use in regressions. I provide a hackish solution below, but is
> there a better way? Is there anything flawed with my approach? I am a
> little wary of loops and my own coding. Thanks!
>
> Here is my hackish solution if I want to mark observations with any
> missing variables.
>
> * begin code
> sysuse auto, clear
> replace price = . in 1
> replace mpg = . in 2
> list in 1/5
>
> * hackish solution
> generate byte complete = 1
> foreach x of varlist * {
>    replace complete = 0 if missing(`x')
> }
> list in 1/5
> * end code
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