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Re: st: Translating SPSS syntax into STATA
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Maarten Buis <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Translating SPSS syntax into STATA
Date
Fri, 10 Aug 2012 14:30:04 +0200
lhe_1 is a variable. So you need to look back in your syntax to where
that variable was created in order to find out what it contains. My
guess, but it can be nothing other than a guess, is that it contains
some (group-specific) mean.
** in SPSS is ^ in Stata
-- Maarten
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Stephen LeRoux <[email protected]> wrote:
> I need some help understanding the following SPSS syntax in order to translate it into STATA syntax.
>
> I am using STATA 12
>
> SPSS syntax:
>
> COMPUTE lhsq2 = (lhe - lhe_1)**2.
> EXECUTE.
>
> The variable lhe is the log of hourly pay. My data is one quarter of the UK Labour Force Survey.
>
> I don't know what the lhe_1 means.
>
> Any help would be much appreciated,
>
> Thanks
>
> Stephen le Roux
> National Institute of Economic and Social Research
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