--- Ziad El-Khatib <[email protected]> wrote:
> it might be very basic question, but any tips will be great!
> In my dataset, missing variables are given value of "888", I know how
> to label them as missing in SPSS and this won't affect analysis, so
> they will not be shown.
>
> I ma trying to find a way to let STATA analyse dataset by avoiding
> including records with value 888 in variable "weight" (for example)
A missing value in Stata is refered to as ".", so you can use -recode-,
to turn the values 888 into . :
recode weight (888=.)
Or if you prefer to keep the original variable intact, you can type:
recode weight (888=.), gen(newweight)
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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