The first item missing days has code for non-applicable

1. 2. If applicable, code to extended missing values (.b) all non-applicable values (coded as 8).

   3. Create a new combined variables indicating:

      5. No response (code 5)

TIP: you should consider that some people may not have responded to the first question, but may have responded to the second…… What is y our decision going to be? Justify your decision when coding the variable.

2. 1. Identify these two variables in the dataset

   2. Generate a numerical variable indicating the number of days missing, coding as zero (“0”) those reporting not missing any days.