Feno wrote:
In my data,
only the codes are reported as 1 2 or 3 etc. That is
if 1 is reported then that 1 corresponds to income
<2500 if per year, <200 if per month and <50 if per
week. And then I have another incomereport variable
which says that the income variable above was either
reported by year(1), by month(2) or by week(3).
What I don't know is how do I replace the value 1 2
and 3 into income range of <2500 or <200 in order for
me to convert everything into values in $ not code 1 2
3 and then convert all in yearly income.
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Then it seems to me that you are inventing a non-existing
problem. You have a variable -income-; the code 1 means
approximately the same annual income interval, regardless
of whether the income was originally recorded per year,
month, or week.
1 is a code, not a number of $$. You could put a value
label to it of your own choice, e.g. "< 2500/year", but
the code is still 1. Calculations with this crudely
categorized variable is hardly feasible, anyway.
Hope this helps
Svend
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