Thank you Maarten,
I finally managed to get it done.
regards,
Gaby
--- Maarten buis <[email protected]> wrote:
> --- Ana Gabriela Guerrero Serdan
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I have data on victimes. The weapons used are
> > reported. Var cau*1 refers to the type of
> > aggression and cau1* to the weapon used. "-" means
> > no information.
> >
> > For some victimes there are two or more types of
> > aggression reported as well as type of weapon, up
> to
> > nine types. Im only including a few below.
> >
> > Im trying to isolate cases in which only one
> weapon
> > is being used by creating a variable (dummy) that
> will
> > indicate that that victim was only agressed by
> only
> > that type of weapon.
>
> You can use logical operators here if you know that
> a
> true statement is given the value 1 and a false
> statement the value zero. So if you create a new
> variable using:
> gen weapon1 = cau12 != "-"
>
> and realize that cau12 != "-" is a logical statement
> saying: "cau12 is not equal to -", than you can see
> that the new variable weapon1 will contain a 1 if
> cau12 contains a weapon and a 0 if no information.
>
> This way you can make weapon2, weapon3, etc. The
> sum of weapon1 till weapon9 is the total number of
> weapons used. If this variable is called nweapons,
> you can make the dummy using:
> gen singleweapon = nweapons == 1
>
> see the example below:
>
> *----------------------- begin example
> -----------------
> drop _all
> input long victim ///
> str5 incident ///
> str6 cau11 ///
> str7 cau12 ///
> str6 cau21 ///
> str7 cau22 ///
> str6 cau31 ///
> str7 cau32
> 49711 d0096 Ground Gunfire Ground Gunfire
> Ground Knife
> 49713 d0097 Other - Other -
> - -
> 49712 d0097 - - - -
> - -
> 49714 d0097 Ground Gunfire - -
> - -
> 49595 d0098 Ground Bombs - -
> - -
> 49596 d0098 Ground Bombs - -
> - -
> 49599 d0099 Ground Gunfire - -
> - -
> 49598 d0099 Ground Gunfire - -
> - -
> 49597 d0099 Ground Gunfire - -
> - -
> 49602 d0100 Ground Gunfire Ground Bombs
> - -
> 49603 d0100 Ground Gunfire Ground Bombs
> - -
> 49601 d0100 Ground Gunfire Ground Bombs
> Ground Nuke
> end
>
> gen nweapons = 0
> forvalues i = 1/3 {
> gen weapon`i' = cau`i'2 != "-"
> replace nweapons = nweapons + weapon`i'
> }
> gen byte singleweapon = nweapons == 1
> tab singleweapon nweapons
> *------------------------ end example
> ---------------------------
> (For more on how to use examples I sent to the
> Statalist, see
> http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/stata/exampleFAQ.html )
>
> Hope this helps,
> Maarten
>
>
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