Re: st: Strange world?

[Philipp Rehm <philipp.rehm@gmx.de>]

tab name if  HoursPWeek > 90

will give you all observations which are greater than 90, which includes 
all missing values. Tab "help missing".

You may want to do:
tab name if  HoursPWeek > 90 & HoursPWeek<.

HTH,
Philipp

DerSpiderman27@aol.com wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> again me...
> I  think there is something wrong with my data or my stata... It�s really  
> unbelievable.
>
> I have 10032 observations.
> Like 200 of them have  announced to be working more than 90 Hours per Week. 
> (There are also 3000  missing values). I can see that doing "tab HoursPWeek".
>
> The strange  thing, is that if I call another variable, for example:
> "tab name if  HoursPWeek > 90", then the answer is about 3000 observations. 
> How can  that be?
>
> Another strange thing:
> If I say "tab name" if  HoursPWeek==99.9 there are "no observations" although 
> I can clearly see in the  data, there are some. 
> Does anyone have an idea?
>
> Thanks,  
> Markus.  
>
>
>
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