STATA 11 for Windows SAMPLE SESSION - Food Security Group ...

Stata 11 Sample Session Section 2 – Restructuring Data Files – Table Lookup & Aggregation
Step 2: Generate a household
level file containing the
number of adult equivalents
per household.
5. Run the describe command again.
The Stata commands are:
describe
label variable cprod_tt "Calories produced in staple
foods"
describe
The new working data file now contains what we need,
total number of calories from staple foods produced per
household. We can also look at this variable by doing a
descriptives. Use the “summarize” command to run a
mean on the new variable cprod_tt. You should find
that the average number of calories produced per
household per year is 4,483,965.
Save this data file using the Save As... command.
1. Use Save As... from the File menu
2. Name the file hh-file1
3. Click on Save.
4. Copy the command from the Results window
and paste it into the do-file editor, delete the
reference to the directory, and add a comment to
explain what you have done.
Remember to save your do-file regularly. You must be in
the Do-file editor to save the do-file.
The data needed to calculate adult equivalents per
household is in the member file, C-Q1A.DTA.
1. Click on the “Open Folder” button on the Stata
Taskbar
2. Select the file name c-q1a.dta and open the file.
3. Copy the command and paste it into the do-file
editor, delete the directory reference, and add a
comment to explain what you have done.
The adult equivalent value says that, on average, a female
10 to 19 years old needs only 84% as many calories as a
male 10 years or older, and that children under 10 need
only 60% as many calories as the typical male 10 years
and older. Thus, for example, a child (male or female)
under age 10 is counted as .60 adult equivalents. For
each person (observation) in the member file we need to
look at the variables sex, ca4, and age, ca3, to calculate
adult equivalents.
The rules we will use for calculating adult equivalents for
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