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Re: st: how to calculate a new variable subtracting from an original value a unit every time a condition is satisfied
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: how to calculate a new variable subtracting from an original value a unit every time a condition is satisfied
Date
Wed, 8 Jan 2014 14:51:46 +0000
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This is an FAQ. See
FAQ . . Creating variables recording prop. of the other members of a group
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N. J. Cox
4/05 How do I create variables summarizing for each
individual properties of the other members of a
group?
http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data-management/
creating-variables-recording-properties/
Nick
[email protected]
On 8 January 2014 14:48, Raffaele Palladino
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I am dealing with the following problem:
> I have to calculate a variable that expresses how many people of the
> family are living together. I have a variable that says how many
> people compose the family (family_number) and several variables
> (member1, 2 etc) that express whether the person is still living in
> that family or not (they goe from 1 which means that the member still
> lives in, to 5, all the others mean different conditions, all
> expressing that the member is living elsewhere).
> I would need to calculate a new variable which is basically equal to
> family_number but that also subtracts a unit every time one of the
> variables member* is not equal to 1 (there are missing values as well
> in the dataset). Is there a way to obtain it?
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