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"another one is:
fammem1-fammem10"
But careful: -aorder- on Ekaterina`s dataset would tend to position her variables as
fammem1
fammem1_liv
fammem2
fammem2_liv
and so on. Even -order fammem?- or -order fammem*- would not make this work...
HTH
Martin
-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:28:34 -0800 (PST)
> Von: Maarten buis <[email protected]>
> An: [email protected]
> Betreff: Re: st: counting the number of nonmissing values in varlist for each observation
> --- On Mon, 28/12/09, Ekaterina Hertog wrote:
> > The problem is I have two types of variables starting with
> > fammem: fammem1, fammem2 etc. until fammem10 (which note one's
> > family members) and fammem1_liv, fammem2_liv etc. and I only
> > want to create the count of one's family members.
>
> See -help varlist- for a variety of tricks, one solution is:
> fammem? fammem10
>
> another one is:
> fammem1-fammem10
> but this will only work if the variables fammem1 till fammem10
> are next to one another.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Maarten
>
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