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st: RE: Cannot generate a dummy variable using if command


From   Joseph Kwan <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: Cannot generate a dummy variable using if command
Date   Fri, 2 Aug 2013 18:10:28 +0000

Just to add that I have some missing values for the observations for the age column ( and I want to generate a dummy for people older than 25)  , is that causing the problem or it is just technical fault due to the product?

Thanks
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From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Joseph Kwan [[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, August 02, 2013 7:05 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: Cannot generate a dummy variable using if command

I would like to generate a variable for people older than 25 years old,

so I use

gen old=1  if age>25

but then Stata returns with an old dummy variable with all 1 for all observations.

I checked the syntax and I do not know what is wrong.

Is Stata known to have faults like that?

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