--- [email protected] wrote:
> I'm creating a capitalism scale out of opinions on various economic
> issues. Alpha creates a scale whose scores are the average of the
> scores that are not missing, provided you have at least two that are
> not missing. How do I set up a capitalism variable so that it is
> equal to the alpha scale, where if the respondent answered all of the
> questions, capitalism takes on the average, but if a respondent only
> answered two, it substitutes the average of those two for the missing
> values?
-alpha varlist, gen(capitalism)-
where varlist is the list of variables that represent the opinions on
variaous economic issues.
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Department of Social Research Methodology
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Boelelaan 1081
1081 HV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
visiting address:
Buitenveldertselaan 3 (Metropolitan), room Z434
+31 20 5986715
http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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