Re: st: Calculating percentages (proportions) of indicator variables

[Jeph Herrin <stata@spandrel.net>]

Try

  forv i=1/4 {
	bys country : egen percent_`i'=mean(response==`i')
  }

But if you have missing values this may not give what you want.

hth,
Jeph

On 8/9/2010 8:39 AM, rado645-bg@yahoo.de wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I hope that you would help me with the following technical problem.
>
>
> I have a dataset based on a question with four different possible answers. The
> question takes the form of an indicator variable with 4 different numeric values
> (1,2,3,4).
>
> I have data for individuals from several countries.  I need to generate a new
> variable that contains the fraction (i.e. percentage share) of each response  to
> the question within each country. However, I cannot find any online source on
> calculating percentages with mutliple responses in Stata (more than two).
>
> Example:
>
> country: response:
>
> 1               3
> 1               3
> 1               2
> 1               1
> 1               4
> 1               3
> 2               1
> 2               1
> 2               2
> 2               3
> 2               4
> 3               2
> 3               2
> 3               4
> 3               3
> 3               1
>
>
>
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