st: Re:

["Ezell, Mike" <mike.ezell@vanderbilt.edu>]

Thomas,

This should do it for you:

bysort name: gen tmpfirst=(_n==1)
gen idint=sum(tmpfirst)
drop tmpfirst

If you want the number of records per case:
bysort idint: gen totrecs=(_N)

--Mike

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Michael E. Ezell, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
Vanderbilt University
Email: mike.ezell@vanderbilt.edu
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--On Thursday, February 13, 2003 2:28 PM -0800 Thomas Heckelei 
<heckelei@wsu.edu> wrote:


> Hi,
>
> I'm a stata beginner and have a recoding problem.
>
> Cross sectional units in my panel data set are currently
> identified by names (string variables). I want to make an integer
> variable out of it such that it has a new (ascending) value for
> each new unit. All the standard routines to "destring" and recode
> that I could find looking at the help file would require me to
> type all the names (>400) at least once.
>
> It might be important to know that the number of time
> observations differ between units (unbalanced).
>
> Is there any possibility to do this within state or do I better
> go back to excel or gauss for that?
>
> Thanks for your help, Thomas
>
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