Theodoropoulos, N.
> I have a matched employer-employee dataset. Each firm is
> recognised by a unique identifier, and in each firm I have up to
> 25 employees. From the existing data I want to generate some new
> variables which capture only firms that employ a positive
> proportion of old and/or young workers. In other words I want to
> generate variables by selecting only the firms with some sampled
> old and/or young employees.
> Also, I have the variables that capture the proportion of old and
> young workers.
> Is there a quick way of doing this instead of going through the
> firms one by one.
Check out e.g. -egen, any()-
and/or
http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data/anyall.html
Nick
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