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Toyoto
At 09:44 04/06/30 +0200, you wrote:
> Dear all,
> to check whether my data recoding and selection was done properly I gave
> the commands below.
> It appeared that none of the cases in my dataset had the combination of
> FIRSTCAS equals1 and CLPL not equal to 1, which was great. Thus, after
> the "keep" I had an empty dataset, with only the names of all (about 50)
> variables. Why than did "display <variable1> <variable2>" give an
> answer, and what does it mean?
> 
> . dis _N
> 8200
> 
> . keep if (FIRSTCAS==1 & CLPL~=1)
> (8200 observations deleted)
> 
> . dis CL_NR UNIEKNR
> 11
> 
> thanks for any thougts,
> Annelies
> 
> 
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