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st: RE: Dealing with Missing Values


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: Dealing with Missing Values
Date   Fri, 23 May 2008 17:12:59 +0100

First principles solution: 

gen IB = 0 
foreach v of var stove refri house { 
	replace IB = IB + !missing(`v') 
} 

Quick and dirty: 

egen IB = rownonmiss(stove refri house) 

Nick
[email protected] 

Leonor Saravia

I'm learning how to make some programs in Stata and I�m having
problems in how I could tell Stata to do an indicator I need.

I'm working with the data base for different countries of
latinamerica. In almost all of them I have the same dummy variables
which tell me if the interviwed household has or not a particular good
in the house, but there are cases where the country didn't ask the
household about having this goods, so in this cases I have the
variable with missing values.

The dummy variables, which distinguish the goods being studied, are:
'stove' (1 if has a stove; 0 other way) ; 'refri' (1 if it has a
refrigerator ; 0 other way) ; 'house' (1 if it's the owner of the
house ; 0 other way) .

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

I'd appreciate very much if you could help me, because I 'don't know
how I could tell Stata to do this.

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