Clyde Schechter

I will like will to create a database from an existing data for only individuals aged 16 - 65 who are employed, in labor force, have income above zero and working hours above zero or missing.

I have three variables empstat, labfroce,incwage, uhrswork

empstat which has a category for (1) N/a (2) employed (3) Unemployed and (4) Not in labor force.

labforce which has category for (1) N/A (2) No, Not in the labor force and (3) in the labor force.

will the following codes be right?

Code:
drop if age <16
Code:
drop if age >65

Code:
drop if empstat ==2| age <16
Code:
drop if empstat ==2| age >65
Code:
drop if empstat==0| age <16

Code:
drop if empstat==0| age >65


Code:
drop if empstat==3| age <16
Code:
drop if empstat==3| age >65
*Dropping labour force data

Code:
drop if labforce ==1| age <16
Code:
drop if labforce ==1| age >65


Code:
drop if incwage ==0 |age <16
Code:
drop if incwage ==0 |age >65
Code:
drop if uhrswork==0 |age <16
Code:
drop if uhrswork==0 |age >65

Clyde Schechter