--- On Mon, 28/12/09, Ekaterina Hertog wrote:
> The problem is I have two types of variables starting with
> fammem: fammem1, fammem2 etc. until fammem10 (which note one's
> family members) and fammem1_liv, fammem2_liv etc. and I only
> want to create the count of one's family members.
See -help varlist- for a variety of tricks, one solution is:
fammem? fammem10
another one is:
fammem1-fammem10
but this will only work if the variables fammem1 till fammem10
are next to one another.
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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