Why don't you use -abbrev(SIC,2)-? This will abbreviate the values of
SIC to only the first 2 characters. You can do this:
generate SICabbrev = abbrev(SIC,2)
Then you can store the value of all EXPs with SICabbrev = 20 in a
variable called 'sum' like this:
egen sum = sum(EXP) if SICabbrev == 20
Or you can get the sums by SICabbrev and collapse the dataset like this:
collapse (sum) EXP, by(SICabbrev)
Hope this helps.
Adrian
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Delis, A. [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 4:39 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: How can I find the sum of specific values of a variable?
>
>
> Dear Statalisters
>
> I have a dataset like the following, where the SIC values are
> in an ascending order
> SIC EXP
> 2011 667.8039
> 2013 130.8002
> .
> .
> .
> .
>
> 2095 38.90306
> 2098 0.617763
> 2111 249.92
> 2121 3.738577
> 2131 35.32281
> .
> .
> .
> 2298 5.709858
> 2299 39.7519
> .
> .
> etc
>
> What I want to find is the sum of EXP values that have a SIC
> value begining with 20, i.e. 667.8039+130.8002+..+38.90306+0.617763
> In others words I have some 4digit SIC data and I want to
> aggregate them into 2digit SIC.
>
> Any hint is really appreciated
>
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