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Re: st: R: stata question
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: R: stata question
Date
Thu, 10 Oct 2013 09:50:36 +0100
Similarly, I don't see this question is being about any kind of
merging or conversion or requiring any kind of programming. Reham Rizk
(?) wants summary statistics for each sector. In addition to
-summarize-, checkout -tabstat-.
Nick
[email protected]
On 10 October 2013 09:31, Carlo Lazzaro <[email protected]> wrote:
> Rehamrizk may want to consider the following trivial example as a partial
> answer to her/his thread:
>
> ...................code
> begins................................................
> set obs 6
> g industry="agriculture" in 1/2
> replace industry="automotive" in 3/4
> replace industry="banking" in 5/6
> g wage=1000*runiform()
> encode industry, gen(industry_2)
> by industry_2, sort: sum wage
> ...................code ends................................................
rehamrizk
> I am using stata 12
> I am asking about merging two variables:The first is string and represent
> economic activity of the main job (agriculture/industrial/service sectors )
> and the second is the earnings of the waged employee and it is numeric...
> the issue about earning variable has two variables , the net value of the
> basic wage (money value) and frequency of basic wage
> (day/week/month/3months/year). should I ado any conversion first ?
> it ends up I want to know the wages of different sectors for example
> :agriculture earns how much, industrial earns how much .....etc.
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