QUESTION 7 - ANSWER

How many respondents in the sample have a missing value for the variable identifying the relationship to the head of household?

There are 140 respondents with an unidentified relationship to the head of the household. There are several ways to obtain the answer to question 7, one possibility is by using the tabulate command with the missing option. By typing:

tab rel_head, missing

The command above will display a frequency distribution table in the STATA Results window. Using this table, we find the value corresponding to unidentified or "missing" in the table, which is a dot (.) Looking at the "Freq." column, we see that the number of missing values is 140. This means that 140 observations in the data have a value of "." for the variable rel_head.

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