Re: st: Check for coding of new variables using data patterns

[Sergiy Radyakin <serjradyakin@gmail.com>]

Caroline, do you mean something like this?

do http://www.radyakin.org/statalist/2013102201/freqcalc.do

Best, Sergiy Radyakin

On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Thirukumaran, Caroline Pinto
<cpt8913@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> Is there a way to check the coding of a newly created variable using
> data patterns of variables that have used to create the new variable?
>
> As an example, newvar is a variable that has been created based on
> values of var1-var5. The code used for creating the newvar variable is
> as follows:
> egen newvar=rsum(var1 var2 var3 var4 var5)
>
> To check that newvar has been correctly coded, it would be helpful to
> have an output like the one below:
>
> newvar var1 var2 var3 var4 var5 Frequency
> 0 0 0 0 0 0 10
> 1 0 0 0 0 1 20
> 1 0 1 0 0 0 40
> 2 0 0 1 1 0 70
> 2 0 1 1 0 0 80
> 3 2 0 1 0 0 110
> 3 1 0 1 0 1 120
> 4 1 0 1 2 0 130
>
> -collapse-  gives an acceptable output (it does not give me the
> frequency count) only when var1 -var5 are binary.
>
> I am using Stata 12.1 for Windows.
>
> I get the output tabulated above from SAS using the following code:
> proc freq data=abc;
>  tables newvar*var1*var2*var3*var4*var5 / list missing;
> run;
>
> Many thanks in advance,
> Caroline Thirukumaran
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