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Re: st: RE: Cannot generate a dummy variable using if command
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"JOHN N. NG'OMBE" <[email protected]>
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Re: st: RE: Cannot generate a dummy variable using if command
Date
Sat, 3 Aug 2013 16:35:51 +0200
Hi, since u have missing values in your age column, Stata recognises
all missing values that have 'periods' as very large values and so it
assigns a 1 to those. Fill up those missing values and run the
generate and replace command. Hope this will help. Thanks.
On 8/2/13, Joseph Kwan <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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> 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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