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Re: st: Missing values and listing IDs


From   "Ashim Kapoor" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Missing values and listing IDs
Date   Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:22:09 +0530

forvalues j=1/7 {
recode miss0=1 if x`j'==.
}

Thank you,
Ashim.

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 6:12 PM, Sham Lal <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear statalist,
> I wish to list the ID numbers of those individuals in my dataset that have at least one missing value out any six variables (x1-x6). At the moment I have used the following logic:
>
> list responder_status ID if  x1==. | x2==. | ///
> x3==. | x4==. | x5==. | x6==.
>
> But I'm not sure if this is correct, so I did the following which I think is.
>
> gen miss=0
> recode miss 0=1 if x1==.
> recode miss 0=1 if x2==.
> recode miss 0=1 if x3==.
> recode miss 0=1 if x4==.
> recode miss 0=1 if x5==.
> recode miss 0=1 if x6==.
>
>
> However is there a more succinct way to write this code, instead of 7 lines?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Sham
>
>
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