Re: st: variable data type problem

[David Kantor <kantor.d@att.net>]

What is the data type to begin with?
What is the range of values? int can handle only -32767 .. 32740. 
Maybe some values are out of range.
(int is different from integer. There are three integer types: byte, 
int, and long. long has the largest range)

The other issue that -recast- would complain about is non-integer 
values, but I think that if you use the -force- option, those would 
be truncated, rather than changed to missing -- I think.

Try -recast long-
HTH
--David

At 02:11 PM 6/18/2007, Jon Schwabish wrote:

> I am getting a very strange data storage type problem.
> I am creating a data set that counts the number of
> people by age using the -collapse- command. I then
> merge these numbers back onto a larger data set (to
> use as fixed weights). I am then using the
> -tab- command to compare two variables (using the
> weights) with no problem. When I use the -tabout-
> command, I get an error that frequency weights must be
> integers.
>
> So here's the problem: The weights appear to be
> integers (using the data browser) and I've tried
> compressing and reformatting but to no avail. When I
> try -recast int wgt-, it turns out that about 14
> different observations would be changed, but I can't
> tell why. (If I try -recast int wgt, force- Stata
> turns those observations into missings).
>
> Any ideas for dealing with this problem?
>
> Thanks,
> jon
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