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Re: Too long command in Stata? [message #11638 is a reply to message #11636]

Fri, 20 January 2017 04:11

nwegbus
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Registered: December 2015

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Thank you Tom. I knew I must have been doing something (or possibly many things) wrong.

So what I'm trying to do is figure out the total number of children each woman has. DHS (Nigeria) 2013 does not have this as a variable in the dataset, so what I decided to do was to combine 4 different variables (v202, v203, v204 and v205, i.e., sons at home, daughters at home, sons elsewhere and daughters elsewhere) to get total number of children per woman.

With regard to applying parentheses, (using just one line as an example) what it would look like is this:

replace achild=9 if (v202==9 & v203==0 & v204==0 & v205==0)| (v202==8 & v203==1 & v204==0 & v205==0)|

Thank you once again for your help and continued patience with me. It is much appreciated.

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		Too long command in Stata? By: nwegbus on Sun, 15 January 2017 08:56
		Re: Too long command in Stata? By: Bridgette-DHS on Tue, 17 January 2017 17:06
		Re: Too long command in Stata? By: nwegbus on Thu, 19 January 2017 11:09
		Re: Too long command in Stata? By: Bridgette-DHS on Thu, 19 January 2017 13:12
		Re: Too long command in Stata? By: nwegbus on Fri, 20 January 2017 04:11
		Re: Too long command in Stata? By: Bridgette-DHS on Mon, 23 January 2017 06:23
		Re: Too long command in Stata? By: nwegbus on Mon, 23 January 2017 12:03

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