I have a dataset with multiple string variables. In my dataset, usually only males or females answer a given question, so there are often many missing values within a variable column. I put a period in each cell that doesn't have an answer because I wanted Stata to recognize it as "missing." However, instead, it just recognizes it as a string. I also had these cells as blank before (""), but it was doing the same thing. How can I make it so that the periods are not included (i.e. in the below table, only 262 instances would be recognized in the frequency count.
I completely understand that this is very simple, but as somebody who is just getting started with Stata, it has been a real struggle to figure out. Can anybody help?
-Bri

I completely understand that this is very simple, but as somebody who is just getting started with Stata, it has been a real struggle to figure out. Can anybody help?
-Bri
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