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From   Howard Lempel <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: Re: percent of time a
Date   Wed, 11 Feb 2009 09:01:00 -0500

It would have been helpful if I'd been more explicit.  I have various income variables that are topcoded and censored at zero and would like to know how often that bites among many different subpopulations.  The censoring means that p(X_i=0) is not zero.  I guess it's also true that my variables are not strictly continuous in that they're rounded to the nearest integer.

I ended up doing something like the following:

Gen zero = .
foreach var in `vars' {
	local rowcount = 1
	foreach gend in `genders' {
		foreach yr in `yrs' {
			local colcount = 1
			*Do other things
			. . .
			. . .
			*Find out how often my variable is zero		
			replace zero = (`var'==0)
			sum zero [aw=wgt] if gender==`gend' & year==`yr', meanonly
			matrix `var'mat[`rowcount', `colcount'] = r(mean)
			local colcount = `colcount' + 1
			*Do more other things
			. . . 
			. . .
			}
		}
	}

Nick's method using the _gwtmean function for -egen- also works, but since there's no -ereplace- function, it would have involved either -dropping- a variable in each iteration of the loop, or -egenerating- lots of variables.

Howie
			

Howie Lempel
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The Brookings Institution | Economic Studies
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kit Baum
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 7:06 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: Re: percent of time a

<>
Easy: for a continuous variable the probability that X_i = x is zero.


Kit Baum, Boston College Economics and DIW Berlin
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata:
http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html


On Feb 11, 2009, at 02:33 , Howie wrote:

> Is there a command that will give me the proportion of the time a  
> variable is equal to a certain value?  The command must accept  
> weights.  I'm looking for something like -tabcond-, from SSC, but  
> that returns proportions as well as counts.
>
> One option would be to -generate- a dummy equal to 1 when my  
> variable is equal to my value and zero otherwise and then to use - 
> svy: mean-, but I would prefer something that can be done in one  
> line (and without generating a new variable).  My variable is  
> continuous, so I don't want to -svy: tab- the whole thing.

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