Re: st: command stata

[Richard Williams <richardwilliams.ndu@gmail.com>]

At 06:51 PM 8/25/2011, Donsaane Dontsi Saatena wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am looking for stata's command in order to group many variables into
> one. Let's say we have: roads, water , electricity, and we want to
> group them into one variable: infrastructures.
> could someone help me with the command?
>
> thanks
Does -egen- with the group function do what you want? e.g.

. webuse nhanes2f, clear
. egen grp = group(sex race), label
. tab1 grp

-> tabulation of grp

   group(sex |
       race) |      Freq.     Percent        Cum.
-------------+-----------------------------------
  Male White |      4,306       41.66       41.66
  Male Black |        500        4.84       46.49
  Male Other |        103        1.00       47.49
Female White |      4,745       45.90       93.39
Female Black |        586        5.67       99.06
Female Other |         97        0.94      100.00
-------------+-----------------------------------
       Total |     10,337      100.00



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