Re: st: simple question

["E. Paul Wileyto" <epw@mail.med.upenn.edu>]

Seems like you should be using & in the last line.

My code for this would be:

-egen redundism=rsum( zredundab zdismissa)
-replace redundism = redundism>0 if redundism<.

P

Renuka Metcalfe wrote:
> Dear All
>
> I want to create a dummy variable redundism which
> equals dummy = 1 if the establishment has had any
> dismissals or redundancies in the past 12 months. I
> would be grateful, if anyone would let me know if the
> following is the correct way to do it. There is a
> debate amongst us at whether it in the second line it
> should be "|" or "&". I would be grateful, if you
> would confirm if the following is correct or should it
> be an "&"
>
> ge redundism=.
> replace redundism=1 if zredundab==1|zdismissa==1
> replace redundism=0 if zredundab==0|zdismissa==0
>
> Many thanks in advance
>
>
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