Missing versus excluded data

Re: Missing versus excluded data

by Taylor Howell -
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For Question 5e, you are asked to recode the hivstatus variable so that 0=HIV Negative, 1=HIV Positive, and .=Excluded Record (missing).

I would first check how hivstatus is currently coded in the dataset to see if you need to convert the variable. Then, I would recode the variable using the rule above. You could then also check to see if you need to relabel.

Hope this helps!