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Re: st: ratio of part time work


From   David Kantor <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: ratio of part time work
Date   Mon, 12 Jun 2006 07:53:04 -0400

I would add, that you may want to look, instead at the ratio...
(zmalprt+zfemprt) / (zmalfull+zfemfull+zmalprt+zfemprt)

that is, the proportion that part-time work represents as compared to the total work. But that's something you need to decide as a substantive matter.
--David

At 10:58 PM 6/10/2006, you wrote:

On 6/11/06, peter harper <[email protected]> wrote:
Dear Statalisters

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
[...]
gen ratioprtwrk=(zmalprt+zfemprt) / (zmalfull+zfemfull)

Neil
[...]
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