Creating Weights

[Melat Kassa]

I am trying to create a weighted wage, using employment and wage. I tried the following command, but I got a "type mismatch error"

gen weight_for_increase=p10_binned * emp if min_wage_increase == 1

both p10_binned and emp are numeric variables. What would be the correct way to create this weight?

[William Lisowski]

Perhaps min_wage_increase is not a numeric variable. I would run

codebook p10_binned emp min_wage_increase

and carefully review the output to be certain all three are numeric rather than strings holding numbers.

[Melat Kassa]

yes, that correct. It wasn't a numeric variable. Thank you!