st: store tabulate data

["bunny , lautloscrew.com" <bunny@lautloscrew.com>]

Hi everybody,

i am really new to stata and work with R for a little while, so i  
guess my problem is rather basic and rather a syntax problem.
i have a dataset with household numbers of kids and i want to get a  
new "number of siblings" variable.
that means i�d like to store the frequency of household number just  
right next to the household number itself.

my approach is to use tabulate householdnumber... which prints a  
table of frequency and percentages.

Can I do it like that ? And how can I store this frequency as a  
variable ? such that i can see it in the data editor as a column ?

in R something like A = tabulate householdnumber would have worked.  
but in STATA it does not.
Somehow I used the wrong search phrases so far there must exist  
something like it.

i have the same problem storing correlation matrices. mycorrmat = cor  
a b c d  aint working neither.

thanks in advance !

matthias


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