foreach forval egen rowmean

[Hyondong Kim]

I am using egen rowmean function to calcluate the mean value of variables.

1.
foreach v in "universitysatis1 universitysatis2 universitysatis3 universitysatis4 universitysatis5 universitysatis6 universitysatis7 universitysatis8 universitysatis9" {
egen univeresitysatismean = rowmean(`v')
}
2.
forval j=1/9{
foreach v in "universitysatis`j'" {
egen mean = rowmean(`v')
}
}

Number 1 and Number 2 mean and standard deviation values are different.
Variable | Obs Mean Std. Dev. Min Max
-------------+---------------------------------------------------------
university~n | 6,004 3.71197 .5065528 1.111111 5
mean | 6,004 3.792305 .5967881 1 5

How can I fix it especially number 2?


3.
foreach v in "universitysatis1 universitysatis2 universitysatis3 ///
universitysatis4 universitysatis5 universitysatis6 universitysatis7 ///
universitysatis8 universitysatis9" {
egen univeresitysatismean = rowmean(`v')
}

Number 3 is not working. How can I make it working?

Because I am novice, I have no idea about to fix it.
If you have solution, please, let me know.
Thanks
Hyondong Kim

[George Ford]

forv i = 1/9 {
    egen univeresitysatismean`i' = mean(universitysatis`i')
}

[Hyondong Kim]

Thanks But, Sorry. I would like to egen rowmen function, which means that I want to have rowmean of 9 variables, "universitysatis1 universitysatis2 universitysatis3 ///
universitysatis4 universitysatis5 universitysatis6 universitysatis7 ///
universitysatis8 universitysatis9". Your function generates mean of each variable. I want to have mean value of all nine variables.

[George Ford]

egen univeresitysatismean = rowmean(universitysatis*)