I am trying to generate a new variable to take on the values of 1 and 0. Where 1 represents alcohol abuse and 0 no alcohol abuse.

My variables are:

Alc is a variable which has information for alcohol consumption

gender takes the value of 0 and 1 for male and female respectively



for female, alcohol abuse the condition is equal or greater than 2.

for male, alcohol abuse the condition is equal or greater than 3.


Will I be right to specific the command as below:

Code:


gen ABI = 0






Code:




replace ABI =1 if alc >=3 & gender ==1






Code:




replace ABI =1 if alc >=4 & gender ==0



Clyde Schechter