How set values in pandas dataframe based on NaN values of another column?

Question

I have dataframe named df with original shape (4361, 15). Some of agefm column`s values are NaN. Just look:

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Answer 1

The best is use numpy.where:

df['nevermarr'] = np.where(df.agefm.isnull(), 1, 0)
print (df)
   agefm  nevermarr
0    NaN          1
1    5.0          0
2    6.0          0

Or use loc, ==True can be omitted:

df.loc[df.agefm.isnull(), 'nevermarr'] = 1

Or mask:

df['nevermarr'] = df.nevermarr.mask(df.agefm.isnull(), 1)
print (df)
   agefm  nevermarr
0    NaN          1
1    5.0          2
2    6.0          3

Sample:

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np

df = pd.DataFrame({'nevermarr':[7,2,3],
                   'agefm':[np.nan,5,6]})

print (df)
   agefm  nevermarr
0    NaN          7
1    5.0          2
2    6.0          3

df.loc[df.agefm.isnull(), 'nevermarr'] = 1
print (df)
   agefm  nevermarr
0    NaN          1
1    5.0          2
2    6.0          3