Need help with creating a new variable from existing variable

[Xusanboy Kotibjonov]

Question:

unemployed = 1 if a person is unemployed, 0 else. Create this variable yourself. Assume that everyone with earnings > 0 is employed.

Can you please write a code for it? I am quite new to STATA and I need your help!

generate unemployed=.
if salary >0 {
replace unemployed = 0
}

else if salary <1 {
replace unemployed = 1
}


this was my code and I know its completely wrong

[Guest]

I'm also quite new. But I think I can help you. The variable you want to create is so called dummy variable. Here is the article how to create it : Stata | FAQ: Creating dummy variables. There is an example there how to create a dummy indicating whether somebody is young or not. Somebody is young if he/she is below 25. Here is the code:

gen young=0
replace young=1 if age<25

you can modify this code to your case

[Vilma Antonov]

Okay also kind of new but could this work?

gen unemployed=.
replace unemployed=0 if salary>0
replace unemployed=1 if salary<1