multiple response questions

[Sofia Raineri]

Hello

I am currently analysing a dataset from a survey. There is a particular question with categorical answers, the question is :
How was the treatment financed?
and the answers are 1. Free treatment 2. Health insurance 3. own cash 4. had to work to provide 5. use of assets 6. took loan 7. got assistance
I would like to only use respondents who have answered 2. Health insurance to run some further analyses against other survey q. How do I go on about doing this? I am new to stata and have looked online but can't find anything useful!

Thanks

[Rich Goldstein]

can people choose more than one type of financing? if yes, you need to give us much more information about how the data are set up - please see the FAQ

if no, then you add something like "if finance==2" to whatever command you are running - note that I guessed the "finance" was the name of the variable - almost certainly I am wrong about that so you need to substitute the actual name of the variable

please read the FAQ for advice on asking questions

see

help if

for help on using the "if" qualifier

[William Lisowski]

Welcome to Statalist.

I'm sympathetic to you as a new user of Stata - it's a lot to absorb.

When I began using Stata in a serious way, I started, as have others here, by reading my way through the Getting Started with Stata manual relevant to my setup. Chapter 18 then gives suggested further reading, much of which is in the Stata User's Guide, and I worked my way through much of that reading as well. There are a lot of examples to copy and paste into Stata's do-file editor to run yourself, and better yet, to experiment with changing the options to see how the results change.

All of these manuals are included as PDFs in the Stata installation (since version 11) and are accessible from within Stata - for example, through the PDF Documentation section of Stata's Help menu. The objective in doing the reading was not so much to master Stata as to be sure I'd become familiar with a wide variety of important basic techniques, so that when the time came that I needed them, I might recall their existence, if not the full syntax, and know how to find out more about them in the help files and PDF manuals.

Stata supplies exceptionally good documentation that amply repays the time spent studying it - there's just a lot of it. The path I followed surfaces the things you need to know to get started in a hurry and to work effectively.

[Marcos Almeida]

have looked online but can't find anything useful!

If Rich's and William's tips weren't enough, just type in the Web browser - Stata subset - and you will find a cornucopia of (very useful) information, including hand-outs, lectures, video tutorials, etc.