extracting specific categories from one variable

[Iskra Markova]

Hi,

I have a variable of industry sector for main job form the Labour Force Survey, however, I am only interested in the people working in the financial industry. How do I go about doing that?

Thank you in advance for your help!

[Carlo Lazzaro]

Iskra:
welcome to the list.
Assuming that those working in financial industry are the level 1 of the categorical variable -employment_sector- (or something similar) and that your research goal aims (say) at calculating the mean disposabe income (-disp_inc-) of that professional family, you can go like this:

sum disp_inc if employment_sector==1

A reproducible example based on a widely used Stata dataset can help you out even better:

. sysuse auto.dta
(1978 Automobile Data)

. sum price if foreign==1

    Variable |        Obs        Mean    Std. Dev.       Min        Max
-------------+---------------------------------------------------------
       price |         22    6384.682    2621.915       3748      12990