Drop command

[manuel dewez]

Hello,

would like to drop an observation from a variable called "country"

when I enter:

. drop if country == Netherlands

the message I get is:

Netherlands not found

But Netherlands is actually an observation that exist in the dataset.

Can anyone explain what is wrong with my command?

Thank you

Manuel

[eric_a_booth]

drop if country == "Netherlands" to get Stata to look for the string value "Netherlands" not the variable Netherlands (which is what your current code evaluates).