OK. Just straining to see from here what
might be problematic.
Nick
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Scott Cunningham
> On Sep 8, 2006, at 11:30 AM, Nick Cox wrote:
>
> > Also, you are not consistent about what -age-s
> > you are working with.
> >
>
> Nick,
>
> You're referring to the last three lines of this original code, right?
>
> foreach i of num 1/`r(max)' {
> gen i=perwt if age>=15 & age<=19 & group==`i' &
> gqtyped==200
> gen p=perwt if age>=15 & age<=19 & group==`i'
> egen itot=sum(i)
> egen ptot=sum(p)
> replace ir_level=itot if age==15 & group==`i'
> replace pop_level=ptot if age==15 & group==`i'
> replace ir=itot/ptot if age==15 & group==`i'
> drop i p itot ptot
> }
>
> I only record the "ir," "pop_level," and "ir_level" values for
> age==15 because I am merging these data with a data set on health
> outcomes, where health outcomes are delineated by an age variable
> that is in groupings of five year increments. So, there is a value
> of "15" for the "age" variable in this separate dataset. I record
> only values for the age==15 to save space, since I will later be
> dropping all observations not equal to 15, 20, 25, and so on.
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