Dear stata-users,
Since I'm a stata-rooky this question probably is very basic. I'm looking
for a way to copy the contents of a specific variable out of the list "x1 x2
x3 x4 x5" to a new variable, newvar, say. However, which variable to copy
depends on the value of another variable, index, say. So I would need
something like:
generate newvar = x(index).
How can I realize this in Stata? I looked through the P programming and the
U user manual, but got stuck. Ben Pelzer.
Not that basic, I think. At least I cannot think of a simple command to
establish this. Many deppends on how exactly your index-variable looks.
Does it takes the integer values 1 to 5? If that is the case, you might set
up a loop using foreach or forvalues.
