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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 18:39:49 +0530

Hi!

would missing(x1-x6) work? I have seen that sometimes.

Ashim

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> Note that what you must type, or otherwise get Stata to see, is
>
> missing(x1,x2,x3,x4,x5,x6)
>
> That is, Stata will not replace an ellipsis ... with what you intend or
> imply.
>
> That said, you can go
>
> list id if missing(x1,x2,x3,x4,x5,x6)
>
> The new variable is not essential for this purpose.
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> Johannes Geyer
>
> gen miss0 = missing(x1,x2,x3,...,x6)
> list id if miss0 == 1
>
> Sham
>
>> 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==.
>
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