Re: st: Missing value problem - At a loss and grateful for any suggestions pls

[William Buchanan <william@williambuchanan.net>]

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On Dec 27, 2012, at 17:35, Mag K <kmagvini@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
> So sorry for resending the email. My earlier mail was not formatted properly.
> 
> I have a dataset for children and parents and would need ro run a
> probit model on child school attendance(binary dependent variable)
> with the parents education, age, sex etc as independent variable. If I
> have observations where there is only one parent in the household I
> can't seem to run the probit properly. Here is an example
> 
> 
> ID             Child school     Father's edu(in yrs)     Mother's edu(in years)
> 
> 
> 1                      1                           5
>           2
> 2                     1                           4
>           3
> 3                     1                           2
>           7
> 4                     0                           5
>           -
> 5                     1                           -
>           3
> 
> 
> 
> In the above example, if I run a probit
> 
> probit child_school    father_edu    mother_edu
> 
> on the 5 observations where the first 3 households have both parents
> and the 4th household only has the father and the 5th household only
> has the mother, stata drops the 4th and 5th observation because of the
> missing value. How do I get stata to consider running all the 5
> observations for analysis of 2 parent household and single parent
> household. Do I use a dummy variable or something.
> 
> Grateful for any suggestions. Thanks
> 
> 
> Mag
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