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Re: st: Grouping income variables- RECODE COMMAND
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Grouping income variables- RECODE COMMAND
Date
Tue, 4 Feb 2014 12:28:36 +0000
Maarten got straight to the main point. Silly of me not to see that.
Nick
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On 4 February 2014 12:25, Maarten Buis <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 12:29 PM, Antonio Rodriguez Andres wrote:
>
>> First of all, I recode the household income variable using mıd-points. The problem is defining a midpoint for the open ended top category. For that purpose, I follow Hout (2004).
>> *Create income midpoints
>> recode hinctnt (1=900) (2=2700) (3=4800) (4=9000) (5=15000) (6=21000) (7=27000) (8= 33000) (9=48000) (10=75000) (11=105000) (12= 175200) , gen(hincome)
>> replace hincome=. if hinctnt==77 | hinctnt==88 | hinctnt==99 // I recode hinctnt= 77 & 88 & 99 (Don’t Know, Refusal, No answer) as missing values
>> gen lhincome=log(hincome)
>> I also need to include in my regression a dummy variable for the mıssing values corresponding to income. I type in Stata.
>> gen missinc=0
>> replace missinc=1 if missing(hincome)
>>
>> When estimating the following model, the dummy variable for missing values for income is dropped but ıt has to be in my model. Is there anything wrong with the Stata code?
>
> Two comments:
>
> First, don't do this, this is not a good way of dealing with missing
> values. See e.g.
> <http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2007-12/msg00030.html>
>
> Second, mechanically what is going on that most estimation commands
> exclude all observations that include at least one missing value on
> any of the variables included in the model. If you exclude all
> observations for which lhincome is missing than missinc will be a
> constant containing only 0, and will thus be excluded.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Maarten
>
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