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Re: st: Count the number of changing string values
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Ching Wong <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Count the number of changing string values
Date
Fri, 14 Jun 2013 21:15:54 +0930
Hi Nick,
I would like to count "how many times a user said Yes one year and No the next".
Thanks.
Ching
On 14 June 2013 21:11, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> I take this to be a new question, but I am unclear what you want. Do you want
>
> 1. Counting how many times a user said Yes one year and No the next?
>
> 2. Identifying the first year in which a user said Yes after
> previously saying No.
>
> I fall back on emphasising my previous advice
>
> Long structure ... is likely to be better for you for most analyses.
>
> Get these data -reshape-d. You are going to want to do lots of
> analyses on different kinds of patterns, and keeping this structure is
> really going to strain any user's Stata fluency.
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
>
> On 14 June 2013 12:12, Ching Wong <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Thanks Nick
>>
>> Yes, it's all good if I only need to count the first "NO'.
>>
>> But I would rather to see how to count the first "YES & NO" between
>> year of study.
>>
>> id Drug2009 Drug 2000
>> 1 Yes NO ------->ONE count
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Ching
>>
>> On 14 June 2013 20:24, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I can't see your value labels from here. But suppose that "No" is a
>>> label for value 1.
>>>
>>> replace year = `j' if Drug`j' == 1 & missing(year)
>>>
>>> I trust that you will be able to modify that to your situation.
>>>
>>>
>>> Nick
>>> [email protected]
>>>
>>>
>>> On 14 June 2013 11:45, Ching Wong <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Hi Nick,
>>>>
>>>> So what if -drug*- are numeric variables with value labels, how should
>>>> I change my Command?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ching
>>>>
>>>> On 14 June 2013 19:19, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> Code that "doesn't work" but is not shown can not be commented on.
>>>>> Long structure (I prefer to avoid the word "format" here) is not
>>>>> essential for the problem as I understand it, but it is likely to be
>>>>> better for you for most analyses.
>>>>>
>>>>> The year in which people first said "No" is
>>>>>
>>>>> gen year = .
>>>>>
>>>>> qui forval j = 1999/2012 {
>>>>> replace year = `j' if Drug`j' == "No" & missing(year)
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>> tab year
>>>>>
>>>>> So,
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. Everybody starts out with missing.
>>>>>
>>>>> 2. If they said "No" in 1999, -year- is changed to 1999
>>>>>
>>>>> 3. If they said "No" in 2000, -year- is changed to 2000, but only if
>>>>> -year- is missing (so values of 1999 are protected)
>>>>>
>>>>> and so on.
>>>>>
>>>>> You didn't explain your datatypes. If -drug*- are numeric variables
>>>>> with value labels, the syntax will differ accordingly.
>>>>>
>>>>> Nick
>>>>> [email protected]
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 14 June 2013 10:20, Ching Wong <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I have the following data set:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Id sex drug1999 drug2000 drug2001 drug 2001
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 1 F Yes No Yes Unknown
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 3 M No Yes Yes No
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 5 F Yes Yes Yes Yes
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 9 M Unknown Yes No Yes
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 10 F Yes No Yes No
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I would like to produce a count of to show the number of people who
>>>>>> quit each year, only count the first time they quit and do not care if
>>>>>> they change their status to ‘No’ again.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What would be the command? I tried to change it to the long formal and
>>>>>> use the lag function, but it doesn’t work.
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