Stata Basics - Constructing an Index

[@mukham7546]

you chose the most comfortable dataset for u and created index which means nothing. Thank you!

[@kathleenelvir960]

Thank you for your video, you can use the stata command codebook [var] to see what variables are originally coded numerical wise. I wish you showed multiple ways to construct indices but for now making sure they are all on the same scale and adding them up will have to do the job.

[@Non91212]

Very helpful, thank you!

[@akoredeadebayo4269]

very helpful

[@liptonblock5683]

Hi, thank you for your video. I have a question about something which has to be easy to understand - but I don't get it:
the original scale of both variables is 1-3. But why is the scale in the new generated index from 0-4 (012345) ?!

[@zozgeable]

Because the index is the sum of the two variables (conmedic + consi2) and shows different combinations of values that these two variables can take. For example, if a respondent reports a great deal of confidence in medicine and science, the index takes the value of 4. If a respondent reports only some confidence in medicine but a great deal of confidence in science the index takes the value of 3 this time.

[@clem2248]

Guys how to make an index when the data is unscaled? I have a 3 variables that are ratios