Femlogit categorical dep. var.

[juliana pinto]

Hi All, please could somebody give me an advice?
I have student level data, with controls for individuals and schools. I want to use school and time fixed effects (the panel data is at the school level). The dep. variables are the situation of the student: 1- fail; 2-drop out; 3-passed, 4- missing.
I am thinking about using femlogit.
Do you have any other suggestion? Or femlogit is fine? If so, do I have to construct dummies to run the model:

 g fail = 1 if situation == 1
g dropout = 1 if situation == 2
g passed = 1 if situation ==3
g missing = 1 if situation == 4

Or the dep. variable will be the var. situation with values 1,2,3,4 ?

Many thanks!!

[Fei Wang]

Yes, you may use -femlogit-, or official command -xtmlogit- if you use Stata 17. The DV keeps its original scales (1, 2, 3, and 4).

[juliana pinto]

Ok! Many thanks Prof. Fei!