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Re: Minimum Meal frequency in BDHS 2014 [message #12384 is a reply to message #11864] Mon, 08 May 2017 15:10 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Trevor-DHS is currently offline  Trevor-DHS
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I think your problem is that when you generate mm1, mm2, and mm3 you are not handling the values outside of the range you specify. For example,

recode m39 (2/7=1 "2-7"), gen(mm1)
should read
recode m39 (2/7=1 "2-7")(else=0), gen(mm1)

Without the else condition, values of m39 that you don't specifically recode are copied over, and thus m39==1 is transferred to mm1 and sets mm1 equal to 1!
Adding the (else=0) will handle these cases.
 
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