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Re: Too long command in Stata? [message #11663 is a reply to message #11638]

Mon, 23 January 2017 06:23

Bridgette-DHS
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Following is a response from Senior DHS Stata Specialist, Tom Pullum:

Apparently you do not know that arithmetic can be done within a recode statement. The number of children ever born is included in the data as v201. It is the sum of v202 through v207. If you want the number of LIVING children, you can calculate that in two ways, either with "gen nlch=v202+v203+v204+v205" or with "gen nlch=v201-(v206+v207)". Much simpler than what you were doing. Fortunately, this group of variables (v201 through v209) never has codes for "not applicable" or "don't know" or "missing", etc. If the component variables for a recode DO have such codes, you have to be sure to take them into account.

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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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