Presumably you typed == not =. 
I've got to say that I don't understand the report. The effect of &
should be as you wish and not lead to the result you state. 
Nick 
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LY Pierrem
Now, I tried to add one more condition on the count, but it seems i am
not putting it in the right place (cause it then counts things wrong).
For example, counting the people who meet the already suggested
timefunded<timeposted[`i'], but also who are, say, of the same region. 
so I tried to expand one line under the forval:
qui cou if timefunded<timeposted[`i'] & region=region[`i'] in 1/`i'
but it ends up counting ALL the people of the same region, not just the
people of the same region also meeting the first condition. Is there a
place to add correctly this in the same code?
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