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From   "Dedman, Dan" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: fillin problems - continued
Date   Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:55:47 -0000

[apologies for sending prematurely - 
I am having problems getting -fillin- to work on a dataset with a variable which takes a large number of values (32000).

My dataset has just 2 variables sex, and area (as string). No missing values.
. tab sex, mi
        sex |      Freq.     Percent        Cum.
------------+-----------------------------------
          1 |     32,507       50.01       50.01
          2 |     32,496       49.99      100.00
------------+-----------------------------------
      Total |     65,003      100.00

so now I
. fillin sex soal

But after this I have no extra records 
. tab fillin, mi

    _fillin |      Freq.     Percent        Cum.
------------+-----------------------------------
          0 |     65,003      100.00      100.00
------------+-----------------------------------
      Total |     65,003      100.00

The command works fine on a subset of the same data:

. tab sex, mi
        sex |      Freq.     Percent        Cum.
------------+-----------------------------------
          1 |         35       49.30       49.30
          2 |         36       50.70      100.00
------------+-----------------------------------
      Total |         71      100.00

then:
. fillin sex soal
    _fillin |      Freq.     Percent        Cum.
------------+-----------------------------------
          0 |         71       98.61       98.61
          1 |          1        1.39      100.00
------------+-----------------------------------
      Total |         72      100.00


I had a _quick_ look at fillin.ado and it was not immediately clear to me why this might fail with no error message. Any suggestions greatly received.

Thanks

Dan Dedman
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