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Re: st: Need help to create variable from list of qualitative variables
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Need help to create variable from list of qualitative variables
Date
Sun, 6 Mar 2011 14:23:58 +0000
egen myvar = rowtotal(var1-var6)
replace myvar = 7 - myvar
Nick
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 12:39 PM, prakash singh <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have six qualitative variable with two options (yes/no) in each
> question. Now, I want to create a variable using these six variable
> such that the new variable will have value equal to one if for all the
> six variables option is yes, then new variable will have value equal
> to two if for any five variables option is yes and no for any one of
> these.... and so on.
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