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  • Employment binary variable into employment rate and continuous variable

    Dear all

    I am wanting to create an employment rate variable (ie. Number employed/ (Labour Force) * 100) from an employment rate binary variable (=1 if employed and 0 otherwise).
    What i have done so far:

    egen CountT = count(EMPL) if EMPL == 1
    * CountT is total employed (strict)
    egen countT = count(EMPL) if EMPL == 0
    gen LabourForce = CountT + countT

    gen EmplRate = 100 * (CountT / LabourForce)

    However, stata does not like me adding the CountT and countT together like that - tabbing it doesn't present anything.

    Furthermore, how do you create a cumulative variable for number of employed people. I want to create a cumulative variable from the EMPL binary variable when it = 1. This is so that i can use it as my dependent variable for an lpoly graph.
    How do you do that?

    Regards
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