Hi,
I think you can run the following code:
gen year = int(date/10000)
gen month = int((date-year*10000)/100)
gen day = date-10000*year-100*month
replace date = mdy(month, day, year)
gsort id -date
by id: gen obs_num = _n
iis id
tis obs_num
tsset id obs_num
by id: gen distance = l.date-date
gen ratea = purchase/distance
by id: gen rateb=sum(ratea)
good luck
Lee Chuntao
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alexander Severinsen" <[email protected]>
To: "Statalist" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 5:22 PM
Subject: st: Panel data - generating variabels & looping
> Dear members of the list,
>
> I have panel data looking like this,
>
> Member ID Date Purchase (grams)
> 1001 20010813 600
> 1001 20010817 1000
> 1001 20010824 ...
> 1002
> 1002
> etc
>
> Does anyone know or have any tips on how to generate a new variabel that
> gives the distance in days between the different dates? Eg.
>
> Member ID Date DateD (Distance)
> 1001 20010813 4
> 1001 20010817 7
> 1001 20010824 ...
> etc
>
> Based on the new variabel DateD i also want to generate a new variabel
> ConsumptionRate that is:
> ConsumptionRateA = Purchase/Distance and then RateB=RateA/number of
> observations. Eg
>
> Member ID Date Purchase (grams) DateD RateA RateB
> 1001 20010813 600 4 600/4=150 150+142.8=292.8
> 1001 20010817 1000 7 1000/7=142.8 150+142.8=292.8
> 1001 20010824 ... ...
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
> Regards,
> Mvh,
> Alexander Severinsen
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