Your final condition selects only cases where 
v2afac==5 & v2afac==6
which will be impossible to meet.  You need to use :
(v2afac==5 | v2afac==6)
remember to put the expression in parentheses 
Michael Blasnik
[email protected]
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "sauanu" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 11:10 AM
Subject: st: operators
> Hi ALL,
> 
> Following is the output that I get from Stata:
<snip>
> . 
> . * paved road and  dirt road 
> . table v2afac  [pw=persweig] if urbrural==2 &
> v2a01==1 & v2afac==5 & v2afac==6, row col
> no observations
> r(2000);
> 
> 
> 
> I can clearly see in the data that there are people
> who have answered both. I am trying to figure out the
> discrepancy in the data.
> 
> Many thanks,
> Anuja
> 
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