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st: question about calculating frequencies


From   Ekaterina Hertog <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   st: question about calculating frequencies
Date   Sun, 28 Mar 2010 18:49:01 +0200

Dear Maarten,
Thank you very much for the advice!
I slightly modified your suggestion as I needed to separate variables representing the number of men and the number of women expressing interest level 1 for a given activity.
so I extended your code as follows and it worked perfectly well!

foreach var of varlist int_* {
   bys sex `var' : gen N`var' = _N if `var' == 1
   bys sex (`var') : replace N`var' = N`var'[1]
   replace N`var' = 0 if N`var' == .
}

foreach var1 of varlist Nint_* {
   gen wom`var1' = `var1' if sex==2
   replace wom`var1' = wom`var1'[_N]
   gen men`var1' = `var1' if sex==1
   replace men`var1' = men`var1'[1]
}

foreach var of varlist Nint_* { drop `var' } thanks a lot!
sincerely yours,
katya
--- On Sat, 27/3/10, Ekaterina Hertog wrote:
I have a dataset containing individuals and about 40
variables representing their interest in various activities.
Each interest variable has a value of 1, 2 or 3 depending on
the strength of interest expressed. I need to calculate
numbers of men and women who expressed interest level 1 for
each activity and then incorporate them as constants into my
dataset.

*----------------- begin example -------------------
clear
input id sex int_baseball int_music int_cinema
1    1           1        2    1
2    1           1        3    1
3    2           3        1    2
4    1           2        1    2
5    2           2        2    1
end

foreach var of varlist int_* {
	bys sex `var' : gen N`var' = _N if `var' == 1
	bys sex (`var') : replace N`var' = N`var'[1]
	replace N`var' = 0 if N`var' == .
}

list
*------------------ end example ------------------------

Hope this helps,
Maarten

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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany

http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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