Homework (1): Use the data in BWGHT.dta to answer this question (in the data file in assignments) 1.

How many women are in the sample, and how many report smoking during pregnancy? 2. What is the average number of cigarettes smoked per day? Is the average a good measure of the typical woman in this case? Explain why or why not. 3. Among women who smoked during pregnancy, what is the average number of cigarettes smoked per day? How does this compare with your answer from part 2 and why? 4. Find the average of fatheduc in the sample. Why are only 1,192 observations used to compute this average? 5. Report the average family income and its standard deviation in dollars. 6. Generate a dummy variable called rich which is 1 for those who se family earned more than 30 000 dollars in 1988. 7. Make a table with number of cigarettes smoked on one hand and the number of rich on the other hand. Is there a striking difference.