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Re: st: basic question
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Nadine Brooks <[email protected]>
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Re: st: basic question
Date
Mon, 22 Aug 2011 22:24:13 -0300
But it is not what is happening. Take a look:
sum v9532 v9982 v1022
Variable | Obs Mean Std. Dev. Min Max
-------------+--------------------------------------------------------
v9532 | 170014 831.5625 1451.442 3 120000
v9982 | 8326 686.3957 1179.807 1 48000
v1022 | 672 957.75 1422.576 8 11000
. gen sal= (v9532+v9982+v1022)
(409603 missing values generated)
. sum v9532 v9982 v1022 sal
Variable | Obs Mean Std. Dev. Min Max
-------------+--------------------------------------------------------
v9532 | 170014 831.5625 1451.442 3 120000
v9982 | 8326 686.3957 1179.807 1 48000
v1022 | 672 957.75 1422.576 8 11000
sal | 638 3999.621 4536.377 68 40000
My variables meas:
v9532: income from main job
v9982: income from secondary job
v1022: third or more of income jobs
But most of the people have only one job, so they get missing to v9982
and v1022...
Thanks, Nadine
2011/8/22 Daniel Marcelino <[email protected]>:
> Well, I don't know exactly what yours variables means.
> If you have numeric values, you result should be:
> v1 v2 v3 sal
> 1 2 3 6
> 1 . 1 2
>
>
> Daniel
>
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 9:11 PM, Nadine Brooks <[email protected]> wrote:
>> By there are missing values particularlly in v9102 and v1022, so I
>> think that I can not use the operator +, can I?
>>
>>
>>
>> 2011/8/22 Daniel Marcelino <[email protected]>:
>>> try
>>>
>>> gen sal= (v9535 + v9102 + v1022)
>>>
>>> Daniel
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 8:54 PM, Nadine Brooks <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Hi statalist
>>>>
>>>> I am a beginner Stata user and I am having trouble to generate a new
>>>> variable. I am using:
>>>> gen sal=sum (v9535,v9102,v1022)
>>>> and I am getting: v9535,v9102,v1022 invalid name
>>>> r(198);
>>>>
>>>> But the names of all the variables are correct, so what I am doing wrong?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
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