I have a set of binary variables and each of them stands for a certain health disease (e.g. heart = heart disease, dep = depression, asth = asthma...).
I also have a variable phi with three values (1, 2, 3) which means three different kind of insurance.
Currently, I want to look at the three insurance distribution, by diseases
I wonder:
1. How to get the number of patients for each disease and put the count information into a new variable count? Or is there an easier way to show how many patients there are for each disease? The below code I tried will overwrite the values of former disease if the respondent has two or more diseases. It cannot calculate the number of patient with a certain disease correctly.
Code:
gen diagnosed=. replace diagnosed = 1 if heart == 1 replace diagnosed = 2 if dep == 2 replace diagnosed = 3 if asth == 3 ....
Thanks in advance!
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