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st: RE: RE: Filtering observations.. Urgent HELP


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: RE: Filtering observations.. Urgent HELP
Date   Mon, 29 Aug 2005 22:02:59 +0100

bysort shcode : egen npresent = sum(!mi(dependencia) + !mi(reservas)) 

would be better as

bysort shcode : egen npresent = sum(!mi(dependencia) & !mi(reservas)) 

Nick 
[email protected] 

Nick Cox
 
> To get a count of missings in your two variables
> you can go 
> 
> egen nmiss = rowmiss(dependencia reservas) 
> 
> or 
> 
> gen nmiss = mi(dependencia) + mi(reservas) 
> 
> Observations you want have no missing values. So 
> -nmiss- is 0 and you can count such observations
> 
> bysort shcode : egen npresent = sum(nmiss == 0) 
> 
> Actually, that could all be telescoped into one: 
> 
> bysort shcode : egen npresent = sum(!mi(dependencia) + !mi(reservas)) 
> 
> Then you are interested in panels for which -npresent > 9-. 
> 

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