QUESTION 5 - ANSWER

Are there more men or women over the age of 60?

Answer:

There are 196 woman over the age of 60 and 142 men over the age of 60 in the data. Thus, there are more women over the age of 60 in the Saldru12 data file.

There are several ways to arrive at this answer. One possibility is to combine the command tabulate with a qualifier statement. By typing:

tab gender_n if age > 60

The above syntax produces the frequency distribution table for the variable gender_n, although the qualifying statement restricts this distribution to observations with an age value greater than 60. From this table we see that there are 196 woman and 142 men over the age of 60.

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