st: Re: using SAS-like arrays to create new variables

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

see -help egen-, I think anycount is what you are looking for.  For example, 
if the child variable are called child1 - child7 (and are in order in the 
dataset), you could

egen count1=anycount(child1 - child7), values(1)
egen count2=anycount(child1 - child7), values(2)
egen count3=anycount(child1 - child7), values(3)

you could wrap these up in a forvalues loop if you want, but with just 3 , 
it's fine to leave as is.

Michael Blasnik
michael.blasnik@verizon.net

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