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Re: st: Calculating percentages (proportions) of indicator variables
From
Sergiy Radyakin <[email protected]>
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[email protected]
Subject
Re: st: Calculating percentages (proportions) of indicator variables
Date
Mon, 9 Aug 2010 13:22:50 -0400
To follow the others' solutions:
generate byte w=1
collapse (count) w, by(country response)
tabulate country response [aw=w], row missing nofreq
Best, Sergiy
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 8:39 AM, <[email protected]> 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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