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Re: st: count cases of a string variable,
Because there is a typo in "65", or at least it does not conform
exactly to the value in the variable age42. If you type -levelsof
age42- you will get the exact values, and than you can use those.
-- Maarten
--- Tunga Kantarci <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks for the reply. I was trying to do the second one, which you
> mentioned my command is legal. But it does not work. Why?:
>
>
> tab age42
>
> age q4 | Freq. Percent
> Cum.
>
----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------
> 61 | 588 32.04
> 32.04
> 63 | 640 34.88
> 66.92
> 65 | 607 33.08
> 100.00
>
----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------
> Total | 1,835 100.00
>
>
> describe age42
>
> storage display value
> variable name type format label variable label
>
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ---
> age42 str80 %80s age q4
>
>
>
> count if age42 == "65"
> 0
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> After I converted the "age42" to "age42num" I get what I want:
>
>
> tab age42num
>
> age q4 | Freq. Percent
> Cum.
>
----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------
> 61 | 588 32.04
> 32.04
> 63 | 640 34.88
> 66.92
> 65 | 607 33.08
> 100.00
>
----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------
> Total | 1,835 100.00
>
>
> describe age42num
>
> storage display value
> variable name type format label variable label
>
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ---
> age42num long %80.0g ttage42 age q4
>
>
> count if age42num == 3
> 607
>
>
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