QUESTION 5 - ANSWER

How would we compute the average age by location?

There are two ways to answer this question. We could use the summarize command with qualifiers to produce the answer, although this would take many lines of syntax and would take some time to work through. A quicker and more effective way to answer the question above is to use the sum option with the tabulate command.

tabulate location, sum(age)

location of |    Summary of age of respondent
  household |        Mean   Std. Dev.       Freq.
------------+------------------------------------
      Urban |   23.750553   15.620933        1808
  Urban Vil |   23.266964   19.240911        2019
      Rural |   25.372664   21.554604        3907
------------+------------------------------------
      Total |   24.443755   19.728498        7734

We obtain the table above, which provides us with the mean age for each of the three locations (urban, urban villages, and rural).

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