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Re: st: is this a missing value issue? (-if- command used)


From   Andrea Bennett <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: is this a missing value issue? (-if- command used)
Date   Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:56:08 +0200

Sorry, I already got the answer from my previous post (I just thought my personal logic would work, too!). Anyhow, one should use the following code:

qui lookfor zt
qui foreach var of varlist `r(varlist)' {
sum `var', mean
if r(mean)<=.1 {
drop `var'
}
}


On Jul 21, 2008, at 3:22 PM, Johannes Geyer wrote:


Hey Andrea,

I guess this is a FAQ:
http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/lang/ifqualifier.html

"if" works like "while" in your example, i.e. in case you have - `var'==.-
and "missing" is
a very large number the if-statement does not evaluate to "true" and does
not execute -drop `var'-. It
starts evaluating your data with the first observation. If the statement
is "false", Stata proceeds executing code after the if-statement.

Hope this helps,

Johannes

[email protected] schrieb am 21/07/2008 15:05:02:


Hi!

I have the following code in my do-file:

qui lookfor zt
qui foreach var of varlist `r(varlist)' {
if `var'<=.1 {
drop `var'
}
}

All my zt* variables are percentages of missing values of the original
variables, e.g. zt_age_2000==0.04 means that 0.04 percent of the
variable age in year 2000 are missing. The way I generated the zt-
variables, they contain Stata missing values for all years except the
corresponding year, e.g. in the above case the zt_age_2000 variable
contains missing values for all years smaller and greater than 2000
while for the year 2000 it shows the percentage missing.

Now with the above query I want to get rid of zt-variable if their
missing percentage is below the threshold of 0.1. Strangely, when I
use the above commands, it does not perform what I want. However, when
I first recode each zt-variable and set the missing values to zero,
then the if-query works fine.

So, what am I doing wrong when using the if-command?

Many thanks for your considerations,

Andrea
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