Dear Statalisters,

I have a question on the command stcompet.

I am considering the entry into a marriage or a dissolution from cohabitation, as
competing risks.

In order to do that, I stset my observations by considering marriage (uniontype==2) as the failure.

Then, I use stcompet to set the dissolution (compet1(1) ) as the competing risk.

This is the code:

stset time, failure(uniontype==2) id(pidnew)
drop cif*
stcompet cif=ci , compet1(1) by(wave5) level(90)

I would like to understand how censored cases are treated.

1) Are they considered in the computation?
2) Should I specify a different competing risk (e.g. compet2(0)) for the censored individuals?

Potential code:

stset time, failure(uniontype==2) id(pidnew)
drop cif*
stcompet cif=ci , compet1(1) compet2(0) by(wave5) level(90)


I would like to understand if you have suggestion on the correct way of proceeding, since I have slightly different curves depending on whether I
am setting censored as competing risks or not.

Thank you and best,
Lydia