--- Leonor Saravia <[email protected]> wrote:
> My problem is that I'd like to perform the next indicator:
>
> gen IB = (stove + refri + house)/q
>
> where 'q' is a number between 1 and 3, depending how many variables
> had values different from missing.
>
> The data looks like this (and I agregate the value - in fraction -
> for the IB that I would like to create):
>
> id_household stove refri house IB
> 1 1 1 0 2/3
> 2 0 . 1 1/2
> 3 . . 0 0/1
*-------------- begin example ---------------
clear
input id_household stove refri house
1 1 1 0
2 0 . 1
3 . . 0
end
egen ib = rowmean(stove refri house)
list
*---------------- end example ---------------
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-- Maarten
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