error "charvar must be <= popvar" with dstdize

[caroline phn]

Hi,
I'm trying to calculate age-standardized incidence rates, but I must have made mistakes in my code cause it's doesn't work.

I want to calculate the incidence for the people who are sick (variable RESULT which is coded 0 if it's negative and 1 if it's positive) and that this incidence be age-standardized (reference population is Fr.dta)

This is what I did :

gen POPULATION=1
generate AGECL = .
replace AGECL = 1 if AGE1>=0 & AGE1<=14
replace AGECL = 2 if AGE1>=15 & AGE1<=29
replace AGECL = 3 if AGE1>=30 & AGE1<=44
replace AGECL = 4 if AGE1>=45 & AGE1<=59
replace AGECL = 5 if AGE1>=60 & AGE1<=74
replace AGECL = 6 if AGE1>=75
label var AGECL "age classes"
label define AGECL_label 1 "0-14" 2 "15-29" 3 "30-44" 4 "45-59" 5 "60-74" 6 "75+"
label values AGECL AGECL_label
save Prev.dta

input AGECL POPULATION
1 11965004
2 11740895
3 12486039
4 13345975
5 11133961
6 6286470
end
label values AGECL AGECL
label def AGECL 1 "0-14", modify
label def AGECL 2 "15-29", modify
label def AGECL 3 "30-44", modify
label def AGECL 4 "45-59", modify
label def AGECL 5 "60-74", modify
label def AGECL 6 "75+", modify
label var AGECL "Age classes"
label var POPULATION "Age-group population in France"
format POPULATION %14.2f
egen double pct= total(POPULATION)
replace pct= (POPULATION/pct)*100
gen cum_pct=sum(pct)
l, sep(0)
table AGECL, c (min pct) format (%14.2f)
save Fr.dta, replace

use Prev.dta
merge m:1 AGECL using Fr.dta

gen byVar=1
dstdize RESULT POPULATION AGECL, by(byVar) using(Fr.dta) print

However, for the last line (function dstdizedstdize RESULT POPULATION AGECL, by(byVar) using(Fr.dta) print) it say : "RESULT must be <= POPULATION"
Do you know how I can solve this ?


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