How to generate a variable with only one gender?

[Karl Hedegaard]

Hello,

I have a variable which shows whether the respondent works in a male dominated or a female dominated work sector. Now i want to generate two new variables, one which shows only the male respondents and whether they work in a male or female dominated sector and one which shows only the female respondents and whether they work in a male or female dominated sector.

How can i do that?

i have tried several code, like the following but none seem to work.

Gen women_in_sector
replace women_in_sector = 0 if sector_recode - (sex >1)

Please help!

[Cansu Oymak]

I assume that gender==1 is female and gender==2 is male
gen female_sector=.
replace female_sector=1 if gender==1 & sector==femaledominated
replace female_sector=0 if gender==1 & sector==maledominated

gen male_sector=.
replace male_sector=1 if gender==2 & sector==maledominated
replace male_sector=0 if gender==2 & sector==femaledominated

Is that what you want?

[Nick Cox]

This can be shortened to say

gen female_sector = gender == 1 & sector ==

where the command needs to be completed by a literal string inside " " if sector is a string variable and a numeric value otherwise. And, naturally, change the variable names as needed.

Advice would be much easier with a data example as requested.