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Re: st: separation of nonresponders from occasional responders in repeated survey administration


From   "Jeremy Miles" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: separation of nonresponders from occasional responders in repeated survey administration
Date   Fri, 13 Apr 2007 14:13:20 -0700

Oops. I mean to *use* plain text.

J

On 13/04/07, Jeremy Miles <[email protected]> wrote:
What does var represent?  Are your data currently arranged tall, or wide?

(It's preferable not to use plain text on the list).

Jeremy



On 13/04/07, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> I am doing an analysis of a monthly survey.  Some of the respondents
> answered the dependent variable question every time it was administered,
> others answered some of the months and others never answered.  I would like
> to compare the group that answered the question at least once with the group
> that never answered.
>
> If I use the syntax:
> drop if var==q.
>  I am left with all of the unique IDs who answered the question at least
> once.
>
> If i use the syntax:
> keep if var==q.
> I get all of the unique IDs who never answered and those that occasionally
> answered.
>
> How can I get the group that never answered without the group of occasional
> responders "leaking into" the group?
>
> Thank you,
> Karen Dunn Lopez, RN, PhD(c)
> The University of Iowa
> College of Nursing
> [email protected]
>


--
Jeremy Miles
Learning statistics blog: www.jeremymiles.co.uk/learningstats


--
Jeremy Miles
Learning statistics blog: www.jeremymiles.co.uk/learningstats
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