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Re: st: question about egen


From   "Sarah A. Mustillo" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: question about egen
Date   Thu, 17 Apr 2003 22:03:25 -0400

Shige -

If you just tabulate CITY, doesn't that tell you the total number of people living in each city (unless your dataset has multiple obs per person or something like that)?

I may not understand what you are trying to do, but based on what you said about wanting to create variables that show 1) number of men in each city, 2) number of women in each city, and 3) total number of people in each city, can't you:

gen nm=city if gender==1
gen nw=city if gender==2
gen np=city

?

Sarah

--On Thursday, April 17, 2003 6:33 PM -0700 Shige Song <[email protected]> wrote:


Dear All,

I am trying to use "egen newvar = count()" to generate a set of variables
indicating frequency of old variables. The syntax is (as stated in the
Reference manual):

	egen nwear = count(exp)

I was wondering what this "(exp)" means (there is no example for this
particular type of egen).

For example, I have variable GENDER (1: men, 2: women), CITY(a, b,
c,d,e,f). I want to generate variables that show 1) number of men in each
city, 2) number of women in each city, and 3) total number of people in
each city. So I type:

	sort CITY
	by CITY: egen nm=count(GENDER==1)
	by CITY: egen nw=count(GENDER==2)
	by CITY: egen np=count(GENDER)

Stata generates all three variables with complains, but surprisingly, all
three new generated variables are exactly identical (all equal the total
number of people)! Can anyone please give me a hand? Thank you very much!

Best,
Shige Song
Department of Sociology, UCLA

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Sarah A. Mustillo, Ph.D
Center for Developmental Epidemiology
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Duke University School of Medicine
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Durham NC 27710

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