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Nick
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peter harper
> Thanks Nick. But it was a typo, as I corrected in the email
> below. I had never used -egen- for the ratioprtwork, I had
> used -gen ratioprtwork. See email below.
> Actually there were three problems. The -egen-
> call was illegal, not just unnecessary. But
> a single attempt would have shown that!
> Nick
> [email protected]
> peter harper
> > Thanks Neil. The missing bracket was a typo. Yes I had used
> >
> > .ge ratioprtwrk=(zmalprt+zfemprt) / (zmalfull+zfemfull)
> >
> > Thanks for confirming.
> Neil Shephard
> > Two problems
> > 1. Its missing an opening bracket.
> > 2.There is no need to use -egen- (see -man egen- for details
> > of what egen does).
> > gen ratioprtwrk=(zmalprt+zfemprt) / (zmalfull+zfemfull)
> Peter Harper
> > > Since the ratio of part time work, would be
> > > the total of the part-time work (i.e., of the both
> > > genders) over the total of the full time work of both
> > > the genders, I presume I do
> > >
> > > .egen ratioprtwrk=(zmalprt+zfemprt)/zmalfull+zfemfull)
> > >
> > > zmalprt=male part time; zfemprt=female part time,
> > zfemfull=female full-time; zmalfull=male full time.
> > >
> > > Can anyone please confirm if this is the correct command.
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